Drugs in literature
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- "Drug books occupy a curious niche in the world of letters. My local bookshop calls their section "Altered States," and its volumes range promiscuously between history, mysticism, natural science, user manuals, social policy and poetry. Drugs may be the ultimate object of interdisciplinary studies. What other field can encompass Alan Watts and Irvine Welsh, Walter Benjamin essays and Advanced Techniques of Clandestine Psychedelic & Amphetamine Manufacture?" --Erik Davis via [1]
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See also
- Cult fiction
- Psychedelic literature
- Club des Hashischins
- Synesthesia in literature
- Drug subculture
- Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library
- Cocaine in literature
- Heroin in literature
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Titles
- Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) by Thomas de Quincey
- The Hasheesh Eater (1857) by Fitz Hugh Ludlow
- Artificial Paradises by Charles Baudelaire on alcohol and hashish (1860)
- The Man with the Golden Arm (1949) by Nelson Algren
- Naked Lunch (1959) by William S. Burroughs
- Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (1971) by Hunter S. Thompson
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History
- Writing on Drugs (2001) by Sadie Plant
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