Naked Lunch

Author: William S. Burroughs

WELCOME TO INTERZONE…Say hello to Bradley the Buyer, the best narcotics agent in the business. Attend international playboy A.J.’s annual party, where the punch is to be treated with extreme caution. Meet Dr ‘Fingers’ Schafer, the Lobotomy Kid and his giant centipede. ‘The Complete American De-anxietized Man’. And enter the dark and infernal mind of Bill Lee as he pursue….Read More

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In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will take us even further into the dark recesses of his imagination,… Continue Reading Posted in: Drug Abuse, Gay Men, Science Fiction

Imperial Bedrooms

Bret Easton Ellis’s debut, Less Than Zero, is one of the signal novels of the last thirty years, and he now follows those infamous teenagers into an even more desperate… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Middle Aged Men, Motion Picture Industry, Self-Help & Psychology Humor, Sports Journalism

The Soft Machine

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Queer

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Last Exit to Brooklyn

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And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

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Howl and Other Poems

Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems was originally published by City Lights Books in the Fall of 1956. Subsequently seized by U.S. customs and the San Francisco police, it was… Continue Reading Posted in: American, American Literature, Beat Generation, Poets, Reference

The Cement Garden

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The Wild Boys

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