Denis Johnson on 3/8 of shrooms: "Bugs bunny with a double-barreled twelve-gauge shoots you in the head with a miracle."


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It's like re-entering society.  I was in a kind of prison, and though I have no interest in returning to it, I am completely overwhelmed by my release.  I've been living a bit too fast and hard since I got out.  Under these and other cloudy conditions, playing guitar serves as a nearly literal substitute for hymnal healing.  I eat dinner at Lulu's ( Read more... )

I was thinking of a word.  For the longest time, I could not articulate this one thing.  I will never forget the first and most embarrassing time that the absence of this word in my diction became an obstacle to expressing something that should have been very simple.  I was speaking with the executive director of Symphony Space--the organization ( Read more... )

He went out to find Mary in the kitchen in her shorty robe, standing over a frying pan with a cigarette jutting from her lips, humming a tune.  "Steak and eggs," she said, "and guess what?  Champagne."

"Juarez is coming up."

"Up where?"

"Up here."

"Shit.  Here?  Shit."

"Yeah.  And the Tall Man."

"Is that monster still with him?"

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Gay Day of Silence a Waste of Tax Dollars, Critics Say

Thousands of public schools nationwide will allow students

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Unfortunately, every Republican and eight Democrats weren't persuaded. (The factors that govern the fates of bills in Albany are astounding. (Really, I'm too young for this kind of defeat. (The more I know about it, the less I understand. (Of course, it didn't help my quest for reason that not one non-Ruben Diaz Senator who voted against a ( Read more... )

Check out this real-life prison novel in ten pages: http://www.newsweek.com/id/223862

It's pretty stellar. I wonder, though, if the author's familiarity with canonical prison novels informed some of his memories or, at least, his analyses and characterizations.