Critical Essay by R.h.w. Dillard
[Junky] has its historical value, for it was one of the very first books to crack the veneer of the Eisenhower era, to reveal its schizoid nature, that empty smile gl...
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In the following essay, Skerl discusses common elements in Burroughs's novels from Junkie to Nova Express.
In the writing of Naked Lunch, Burroughs discovered the style that best conveyed hi...
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In the following essay, Murphy argues that Queer and Junkie contain no “abstract structure of rules,” such as linguistic rules, and that the only approach to understanding these texts is...
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Yes, you read the title correctly. I am addicted to the number puzzle Sudoku. Let me say right away that I am not a serious addict. I’ve never downloaded a game, and I have never bought a Sud...
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THICK AS THIEVES: A BROTHER, A SISTER—A TRUE STORY OF TWO TURBULENT LIVESBy Steve Geng Henry Holt, 292 pages, $24
Several of New Yorker satirist and editor Veronica Gengâ...
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Even if you are not a political junkie like I, you will still probably find yourself glued to your TV set on election night in 2008. Obviously, you'll be waiting to find out who will become our...
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MADRID, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Use of cocaine by celebrities is
encouraging a trade that destroys whole communities in Latin
America and Africa, the United Nations' top anti-crime official
said on Thu...
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A judge threw out the case Wednesday against a former television host who was arrested last year while trying to parachute from the Empire State Building's 86th-floor observation deck.State Supreme...
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Keyboardist and songwriter Richard Bell, who played with Janis Joplin, has died of cancer in a Toronto hospital. He was 61.Bell died June 15 after a long battle with multiple myeloma, said his long...
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The new book my Hillary Clinton’s adviser, Mark Penn, got some airplay on Z100 this morning, when the jockeys discussed parts of Microtrends that deal with the increasing number of single wom...
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I ought to be writing about Thomas Pynchon. His gargantuan new novel. But I’ve lost confidence in Mr. Pynchon, who hasn’t written a good book since Gravity’s Rainbow, 33 years ago...
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I ought to be writing about Thomas Pynchon. His gargantuan new novel. But I’ve lost confidence in Mr. Pynchon, who hasn’t written a good book since Gravity’s Rainbow, 33 years ag...
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Nearly a year after a stuntman tried to parachute from the 86th floor of the Empire State Building, there's a new round of legal fallout.Building officials filed a $12 million lawsuit against Jeb C...
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Critical Essay by R.h.w. Dillard
Confessions of a Sudoku Junkie
