An Unlikely Candidate for Influence: ‘Naked Lunch’ at 50 Years Young

By Dave Teeuwen

William S. Burroughs changed the way writers would think of honesty in literature, achieving the mark of true greatness in 20th century literature by releasing the last banned book in the United States. [17 July 2009]

Little Murders: And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

By Rodger Jacobs

This is not Tom Brokaw’s Greatest Generation but, rather, Hunter S. Thompson’s Generation of Swine, the urban home front during the waning days of World War II, gritty and unvarnished, and chillingly reflective of modern sociology. [20 March 2009]

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