Title: Happy Mutant Baby Pills Who wrote it? Jerry Stahl, best known for drug addiction memoir, Permanent Midnight, which was turned into a film starring Ben Stiller. Plot in a Box: A corporate hack slash junkie stumbles his way through the dull wave of the directionless malaise that is th...
Manny Rupert is a former cop. He's kind of a former junky. He's almost formerly married to Tina, a woman he met after answering a domestic call during which he discovered that she'd murdered her then husband by putting ground glass and Drano in his Lucky Charms. (He didn't put that in his officia...
This was really interesting. This collection of stories is gritty, and doesn't glamorize the use of drugs. Well enjoyed.
This is a scary collection of stories. It should be required reading for high school - a sort of "Scared Straight" for potential junkies. The lengths the addicts went to to procure their fix was astonishing and heartbreaking. My favorite selection was the very first story "Fragments of Joe" by Tony ...
Only read the Megan Abbott story, but that's all I wanted it for. A doctor is arrested for prescribing illegal and undisclosed drugs to his patients, after it all goes tragically wrong; his (remaining) patients are on his side. Not really about speed per se, I think, but that's not the point. The...
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