By: Maven Cade Leary “Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived, or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?” – Hunter S. Thompson Whenever I decide to move, I tend to do so suddenly and with great force. Such […]
By Ron Whitehead on Friday, July 12, 1996 from litkicks.com William S. Burroughs is one of the greatest writers of our times. His talent has brought him fame, and along with it, many burdens. Daily, Burroughs is swamped with fan mail, unexpected visitors and interview requests…Burroughs, who rarely grants interviews, […]
By Peter Schjeldahl from the New Yorker Feb. 3, 2014 “I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves.” So starts “Naked Lunch,” the touchstone novel by William S. Burroughs. That hardboiled riff, spoken by a junkie on the run, introduces a mélange of “episodes, […]
By: Davis Ripley Keller I was drinking with the Devil and the Devil got drunk Passed out cold so I put him in the trunk Drove downtown to the county jail Said “book this crook don’t set no bail” Police said, “what did he do?” I said, “what did he […]
December 21, 2012 By: Clayton L. Luce It’s only a few days before Christmas and many of us are out running around like fiends trying to get last minute Christmas shopping done, or trying not to be killed on the way to the grocery store by the Christmas shoppers who […]
by Tom Shroder – from reset.me Dec. 2, 2014 Though I began researching Acid Test, a book about the revival of research into the use of psychedelic drugs for healing, in 2007, my interest in the subject really began 30 years earlier, when I was a college student at the […]
from RT.COM Dec. 20, 2014 More than 30 cities in Spain have expressed their anger over the so-called ‘gag’ legislation that criminalizes social protest and, demonstrators say, curbs the freedom of expression. The slogan of the movement is “Gag Law, why do they want to shut us up?” and unites […]
By LARRY ROHTER DEC. 19, 2014, N.Y. Times After disembarking from a Los Angeles to London flight in February 1969, the recording engineer and producer Glyn Johns went straight to a studio to work with the Beatles on the album that became “Abbey Road.” That was followed by an all-night […]
By Ben Wolfgang – The Washington Times – Thursday, December 18, 2014 President Obama on Thursday signed an executive order officially creating a “Task Force on 21st Century Policing,” a high-level group that will report directly to the president with recommendations on how to strengthen ties between law enforcement […]
In the many varied towns I have lived in, I’ve had the opportunity to meet a lot of different people. Not to sound harsh, but a great deal of them seemed, to me, to need some sort of therapy. It’s no surprise to me most of them will never see […]
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