The Last Opium Den
7 best books like The Last Opium Den (Nick Tosches): Diary, Junky, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto, Snuff, The Compromise, The Good Rat, Clockers
| Author | Chuck Palahniuk |
| ISBN | 1400032814 |
Misty Wilmot has had it. Once a promising young artist, she’s now stuck on an island ruined by tourism, drinking too much and working as a waitress in a hotel. Her husband, a contractor, is in a coma after a suicide attempt, but that doesn’t stop his clients from threatening Misty with lawsuits over...
| Author | William S. Burroughs |
| ISBN | 0142003166 |
Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first novel. It is a candid eye-witness account of times and places that are now long gone, an unvarnished field report from the American post-war underground. Unafraid to portray himself in 1953 as a confirmed...
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
| Author | Chuck Klosterman |
| ISBN | 0743236017 |
Countless writers and artists have spoken for a generation, but no one has done it quite like Chuck Klosterman. With an exhaustive knowledge of popular culture and an almost effortless ability to spin brilliant prose out of unlikely subject matter, Klosterman attacks the entire spectrum of postmodern...
| Author | Chuck Palahniuk |
| ISBN | 0385517882 |
From the master of literary mayhem and provocation, a full-frontal Triple X novel that goes where no American work of fiction has gone before
Cassie Wright, porn priestess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for serial fornication. On camera. With six hundred...
| Author | Sergei Dovlatov |
| ISBN | 0897333535 |
A very different read than my usual book. This is a collection of newspaper articles written in Estonia during the late 1970s, each followed by a longer description, often satirical (intended? or otherwise) which provides the true background of the articles. Through this the reader sees a sample of...
| Author | Jimmy Breslin |
| ISBN | 0060856661 |
Of course Pulitzer Prize winner Jimmy Breslin recognized Burton Kaplan right away as the Mafia witness of the ages. Breslin comes from the same Queens streets as mob bosses John Gotti and Vito Genovese. But even they couldn't match Kaplan in crime—and neither could anybody else.
In his inimitable...
| Author | Richard Price |
| ISBN | 0747562733 |
Novelist and Academy Award–nominated screenwriter Richard Price's bestselling second novel offers "an unforgettable picture of inner-city decay and despair" (USA Today)
At once an intense mystery and a revealing study of two men, a veteran homicide detective and an innercity crack dealer,...
