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You'll Soon Be Able to Smoke from Hunter S. Thompson's Personal Weed Stash
Guess we know what weed the guys in your English 201 class will be smoking.
What It's Like to Grow Up in the Mafia
We sat down with Frank DiMatteo, author of new book 'The President Street Boys: Growing up Mafia,' to talk about what it was like being a part of the Gallo crime family.
Everything I Learned Researching the Female Orgasm
There's long been a societal (and scientific) bias against female sexuality. Fortunately, that is slowly changing with more women taking their pleasure into their own hands.
This Drug Smuggler and 'Hippie Mafia' Leader Is a Weed Legalisation Movement Veteran
In the 1960s, Richard Stratton distributed thousands of pounds of weed and worked for 'High Times'. His memoir tells his story of straddling the criminal and literary worlds.
Lena Andersson Writes About the Consequences of Being Desperately in Love
We sat down with one of Sweden's most talked-about authors and leading authority on love.
John McManus Wrote the Best Short Story About a Thomas Jefferson Clone You’ll Read This Year
We spoke to the author of "Fox Tooth Heart" about his long break from publication and why shame is the most powerful and revealing emotion.
A Teacher and Her Student
Marilynne Robinson was my fourth and final workshop instructor at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
Thought and Memory
Back in 2008, when my first novel came out, my publisher sent me on a West Coast tour.
John Healy Won't Let the Bastards Grind Him Down
He fought other homeless winos in the street, then won book awards, then played tournament chess.
Mary Karr
Karr handles gruesome experiences with such compassion, charm, lyricism, vividness, and mordant comedy that the work transcends mere horror story or freak show. Her storytelling melds scrappy Texas slang with poetic precision and is totally addictive.
Bret Easton Ellis
Over the course of six novels and one book of short stories, Bret Easton Ellis has put together one of the most entertaining, fascinating, and fucked-up bodies of work in contemporary literature.
Max Brooks
Anybody who cares about the state of the world and what happens to people when disease and wars happen should read World War Z by Max Brooks. It’s a fictional oral history of “the zombie war.”