How to Stop Time: Heroin From A To Z

Author: Ann Marlowe

”Heroin,” writes Ann Marlowe, ”is a stand-in, a stopgap, a mask for what we believe is missing. Like the ‘objects’ seen by Plato’s man in a cave, dope is the shadow cast by cultural movements we can’t see directly.”Cultural criticism masquerading as a heroin memoir masquerading as a dictionary, how to stop time looks at American society through the lens of heroin use. Weav….Read More

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