Gentleman Junkie

Author : Harlan Ellison
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497604650

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Gentleman Junkie by Harlan Ellison Pdf

A remarkably trenchant collection of early stories by “the dark prince of American letters” exploring the injustice and desperation of a forgotten America (Pete Hamill, author of A Drinking Life). Bold and uncompromising, Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-up Generation is a watershed moment in Harlan Ellison’s early writing career. Rather than dealing in speculative fiction, these twenty-five short stories directly tackle issues of discrimination, injustice, bigotry, and oppression by the police. Pulling from his own experience, Ellison paints vivid portraits of the helpless and downtrodden, blazing forth with the kind of unblinking honesty that would define his career. Reviewing this collection, Dorothy Parker called Ellison “a good, honest, clean writer, putting down what he has seen and known, and no sensationalism about it.”

Author : Harlan Ellison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Manners and customs
ISBN : 0515039330

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Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-up Generation by Harlan Ellison Pdf

Author : Ellen Weil,Gary K. Wolfe
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Science fiction, American
ISBN : 0814208924

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Harlan Ellison by Ellen Weil,Gary K. Wolfe Pdf

Author : Jonas E. Alexis
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452006116

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Christianity's Dangerous Idea by Jonas E. Alexis Pdf

Today many in Hollywood and the media have declared open warfare on the family, education, and Christianity in general. Intellectuals have labeled religion, particularly Christianity, as mere wish fulfillment or a virus of the mind, something to be eradicated at all costs. In Christianity's Dangerous Idea, Jonas Alexis picks up where he left off in his previous books and continues to examine the ideological fallacies that have been fabricated in order to attack Christianity and the people who promote those fallacies. This latest book is a tour de force of rigorous logic and testable evidence for the Christian worldview from history, science, experience, common sense, and final destiny. More importantly, Alexis subjects the rivals of Christianity to the same rigorous testing. Christianity's Dangerous Idea clearly demonstrates the destructive nature of popular atheistic and anti-Christian philosophies, spread throughout Western culture by such famous people as Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, David Cronenberg, Steven Spielberg, Alan Moore, William S. Burroughs, Philip K. Dick, Bruce Lee, Ayn Rand, Bart D. Ehrman, Richard Dawkins, and many more. In a scholarly yet readable fashion, Alexis shows that what the ancient Greeks often referred to as "the cult of Dionysus" has become mainstream in our modern age.

Author : Graham Caveney
Publisher : Little Brown & Company
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0316137251

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Gentleman Junkie by Graham Caveney Pdf

A portrait of the iconoclastic literary pioneer describes his early life and education, his growing addiction to heroin, his role in the Beat movement, his landmark works, and his influence on the late twentieth century arts.

Author : Simon R. Green
Publisher : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781625675804

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Casino Infernale by Simon R. Green Pdf

Paranormal secret agent Eddie Drood has never been one to shy away from risk. But in New York Times bestselling author Simon R. Green’s seventh Secret Histories novel, the smart-aleck spy is going to gamble far more than he can afford to lose... Eddie Drood (aka: “Shaman Bond”) is on the outs with his capricious family. Nothing too disturbing, mind you. Just some old grudges, long-simmering lies, and the occasional assassination attempt, So, in the name of his own longevity, Eddie’s taking his talents freelance (a man’s got to earn a living). But earning a living can get a lot closer to dying than Eddie would like. Under the auspices of the Department of the Uncanny, Eddie and his witchy love Molly Metcalf have been assigned to attend the Casino Infernale—a gathering of the most powerful, wealthy, and sinister supernatural super criminals hosted by the ever-enigmatic Shadow Bank. Eddie and Molly are to infiltrate the affair, toss some wrenches into the works, and take down the Bank once and for all. The stakes are high, the competition lethal. And while Eddie might be able to buy his way into this game, he won’t be able to buy his way out to save his life...

Author : Harlan Ellison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1946542148

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Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories from the Hung-Up Generation by Harlan Ellison Pdf

Five years in the making, the Edgeworks Abbey Archive represents Harlan Ellison's last word on his written legacy. Researched and edited by Ellison's long-time associate, Jason Davis, under the supervision of Harlan and Susan Ellison, this collection assembles the preferred texts of each story and essay along with previously uncollected and unpublished material to create the definitive edition.This is the book that established Harlan Ellison once and for all as a master of short fiction; this is the book that took Ellison to Hollywood; and this is the only paperback book, ever, reviewed by the legendary Dorothy Parker in Esquire magazine:"It is not the province of this department to take up recent paperbacks? But lately there has come into my weary hands a paperback of short stories by Harlan Ellison, a young writer whose name I had not known before. The book is horribly titled, 'Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-Up Generation.' ? It turns out that Mr. Ellison is a good, honest, clean writer, putting down what he has seen and known, and no sensationalism about it? I cannot recommend it too vehemently."DOROTHY PARKER

Author : Nancy D. Campbell,JP Olsen,Luke Walden
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781949669251

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The Narcotic Farm by Nancy D. Campbell,JP Olsen,Luke Walden Pdf

The United States Narcotic Farm opened in 1935 in the rolling hills of Kentucky horse country. Portrayed in the press as everything from a "New Deal for the drug addict" to a "million-dollar flophouse for junkies," the sprawling art deco facility was equal parts federal prison, treatment center, working farm, and research laboratory. Its mission was to rehabilitate addicts, who were increasingly criminalized and incarcerated as a result of strict new drug laws, and to discover a cure for opiate addiction. This richly illustrated book offers an important history of this progressive yet ultimately doomed experiment. "Narco," as the locals called it, pioneered new treatments such as prescribing methadone to manage heroin withdrawal and developed drugs that blocked the action of opiates. The coed institution admitted federal prisoners as well as volunteers who checked themselves in for treatment, and through the years it hosted several legendary jazz musicians, including Chet Baker and Sonny Rollins, as well as actor Peter Lorre and writer William S. Burroughs. The facility ultimately closed in 1975 under a cloud as Congress learned that Narco researchers had recruited patients as test subjects for CIA-funded LSD experiments from 1953 to 1962, part of the notorious project MK-Ultra. Featuring a new foreword by Sam Quinones, The Narcotic Farm offers a vital perspective on US drug policy, addiction, and incarceration as the nation struggles with a new opioid epidemic.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Drug abuse
ISBN : UOM:39015007300299

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Research Issues by Anonim Pdf

Author : Martin Levinson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002-08-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780313076879

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The Drug Problem by Martin Levinson Pdf

Current approaches to the drug problem are not working and almost everyone agrees that more effective solutions are needed. This comprehensive volume offers a dynamic new approach to understanding and solving the drug problem. This text applies the techniques and formulations of general semantics to investigate and make recommendations about various aspects of drug abuse. General semantics, a process problem-solving approach based on the primacy of the scientific method and importance of language as a shaper of thoughts and perceptions, has a proven record of success in problem-solving across a wide variety of disciplines and fields. Topics examined include American drug history and policy, the legalization issue, drugs and creativity, treatment, and prevention. A chronological overview of drug-taking in human history and a resource guide are provided. One chapter offers an in-depth description of an effective drug abuse prevention model and a program using the model.

Author : Charles Nuetzel
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781479404285

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Pocketbook Writer: Confessions of a Commercial Hack by Charles Nuetzel Pdf

The publishing memoirs of Charles Nuetzel, legendary paperback author, editor, publisher, and packager. Interviews, reminiscences, tips and tricks of the trade -- everything you ever wanted to know about the early days of publishing from one of the authors who lived through it! "I was lucky enough not only in selling my work to publishers but also ending up packaging books for some of them, and finally becoming a 'publisher' much like those who had bought my first novels. From there it as a simple leap to editing not only a science-fiction anthology, but also a line of SF books for Powell Sci-Fi back in the 1960s." -- Charles Nuetzel

Author : John Hopkins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780857736642

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The Tangier Diaries by John Hopkins Pdf

Tangier in the 1960s and '70s was a fabled place. This edge city, the 'Interzone', became muse and escapist's dream for artists, writers, millionaires and socialites, who wrote, painted, partied and experienced life with an intensity and freedom that they never could back home. Into this louche and cosmopolitan world came John Hopkins, a young writer who became a part of the bohemian Tangier crowd with its core of Beats that included William Burroughs, Paul and Jane Bowles and Brion Gysin, as well as Tennessee Williams, Jean Genet, Yves Saint Laurent, Barbara Hutton and Malcolm Forbes. Those intoxicating decades - Tangier's 'Golden Years' - are long gone. Grand old houses that once sparkled with life are shuttered and dark and most of the eccentrics who once lived and loved in the city have died. But here, in the pages of John Hopkins' cult classic, all the decadence and flamboyance of those days is brought to life once more.

Author : Harlan Ellison
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781497604568

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Memos from Purgatory by Harlan Ellison Pdf

From the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of Strange Wine: A gritty memoir of life in NYC that became the basis for a Hitchcock TV drama. Hemingway said, “A man should never write what he doesn’t know.” In the mid‐fifties, Harlan Ellison—kicked out of college and hungry to write—went to New York to start his career. It was a time of street gangs, rumbles, kids with switchblades, and zip guns made from car radio antennas. Ellison was barely out of his teens himself, but he took a phony name, moved into Brooklyn’s dangerous Red Hook section, and managed to con his way into a “bopping club.” What he experienced (and the time he spent in jail as a result) was the basis for the violent story that Alfred Hitchcock filmed as the first of his hour‐long TV dramas. This autobiography is a book whose message you will not be able to ignore or forget.

Author : Tom Dalzell,Terry Victor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781317372523

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The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English by Tom Dalzell,Terry Victor Pdf

Booklist Top of the List Reference Source The heir and successor to Eric Partridge's brilliant magnum opus, The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, this two-volume New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is the definitive record of post WWII slang. Containing over 60,000 entries, this new edition of the authoritative work on slang details the slang and unconventional English of the English-speaking world since 1945, and through the first decade of the new millennium, with the same thorough, intense, and lively scholarship that characterized Partridge's own work. Unique, exciting and, at times, hilariously shocking, key features include: unprecedented coverage of World English, with equal prominence given to American and British English slang, and entries included from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, South Africa, Ireland, and the Caribbean emphasis on post-World War II slang and unconventional English published sources given for each entry, often including an early or significant example of the term’s use in print. hundreds of thousands of citations from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, and songs illustrating usage of the headwords dating information for each headword in the tradition of Partridge, commentary on the term’s origins and meaning New to this edition: A new preface noting slang trends of the last five years Over 1,000 new entries from the US, UK and Australia New terms from the language of social networking Many entries now revised to include new dating, new citations from written sources and new glosses The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning – it’s rude, it’s delightful, and it’s a prize for anyone with a love of language.

Author : Robert Aldrich,Garry Wotherspoon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000100754

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Who'S Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History by Robert Aldrich,Garry Wotherspoon Pdf

First published in 2004. With subjects drawm from politics, the arts and popular culture, Who's Who in Contemporray Gay & Lesbian History, includes 500 entries from a large team of expert international contributors. The geographical scope takes in the whole of the Western world. Includes fascinating information about little-known figures as well as cult icons from World War II to the present day.