Letter, Diaries

William Burroughs closed his classic debut novel, Junky, by saying he had determined to search out a drug he called ‘Yage’ which he believed transmitted telepathic powers, a drug that could be ‘the f …

"I loved this book. It’s an inexpensive collection of Walt Whitman poems, letters, and essays that is well worth your time … this book is worth purchasing and perusing due to its historica …

Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee are respectively responsible for some of the great contemporary works of fiction: Auster's The New York Trilogy or Coetzee's Disgrace are only two of these aut …

Oscar Wilde’s autobiographical work on suffering, self-realization, and the artistic process De Profundis (Latin for “from the depths”) is Oscar Wilde’s reconciliation from a …

A phenomenonally precicious schoolboy, Rimbaud was still a teenager when he became notorious as Europe’s most shocking and exhilarating poet. During his brief 5-year reign as the enfant terrible of F …