Drenched in a sappy 80’s soundtrack comes Imperial Bedrooms, Bret Easton Ellis’ follow-up to his juvenile debut, Less Than Zero. Like its predecessor, Imperial Bedrooms is also named after an Elvis Costello work. This time the title comes from Costello’s 1982 album Imperial Bedroom. Slap a plural on there and off we go! The book [...]

After the death of Esther Hoffe (long time friend and secretary of Max Brod, and sole executor of Brod’s estate), the attempts to seize the final documents of Franz Kafka and Max Brod from the Hoffe daughters have transitioned from passive-aggressive to completely aggressive-aggressive. Over the past two odd years since Esther Hoffe’s death, no [...]

“It’s about how I joined the polo crowd. By accident.” That was Hunter S. Thompson’s way of describing “Polo is my life.” The title comes from a friend of Hunter’s who was known not only known for being “a polo person” but also for having a violent husband and having many domestic-violence calls come from [...]

Meet Dustin Diamond. You know … the guy who played that annoying, corny character “Screech” on the 90s pre-teen sit-com Saved by the Bell. Forget anything you might have heard about him. For a child-star and a celebrity, his life is so plain and typical that he had to make a cloud of lies and [...]

This book won’t save your life despite the bold claims on its cover. This book won’t even give you many tips on how to survive WSHTF (the survivalist acronym for When Shit Hits The Fan, according to the book). What this book will give you is an insight into the mid-life crisis of a fashionable [...]

This “lecture” is more of a question and answer session. Weird kids askin’ everything from bizarre-to-stupid-to-generic questions which Thompson tries to answer. It gives a good perspective on the climate of the late 70′s. (Something that appeared all-throughout Thompson’s work.) It runs a little over 40 minutes.

I was first exposed to William S. Burroughs years ago. I bought Naked Lunch on a whim. Right before heading off to Mexico. While I was there, the book was one of the only things that spoke English. I found the writing wild, hilarious, and especially perverted … the worlds described are twisted and sick. [...]

Part of the BBC’s Arena TV documentary series, this is on the life and work of Kurt Vonnegut. (If the title wasn’t clear enough for you.) I don’t know how you feel about him and his books, but I’ve always sort of enjoyed his opinions and attitude. His books were never as dense or heady [...]