Literature

It won’t surprise anyone to learn that the December 1978 issue of High Times went with a holiday theme. More surprising might be the identity…

For 1993’s Technodon, Yellow Magic Orchestra acquired vocal tracks from cyberpunk novelist William Gibson, dolphin-dosing scientist John C. Lilly, and Naked Lunch author William S.…

Ray Nelson’s short story “Eight O’Clock in the Morning,” on which John Carpenter based They Live, was first published in the November 1963 issue of…

Elliott Gould as Philip Marlowe in Robert Altman’s film version of Raymond Chandler’s ‘The Long Goodbye.’ Raymond Chandler wanted to call his second Philip Marlowe…

Don Van Vliet, ‘Crepe and Black Lamps’ (via beefheart.com) Among the treasures stored on Magic Band alumnus Gary Lucas’ Soundcloud is this recording of David…

The author at home It’s the 40th anniversary of the Sex Pistols’ “God Save the Queen,” and you know what that means: it’s the 40th…

Marilyn Chambers said no. The star of Behind the Green Door and Insatiable did not consent to participate in one of those two-way interview features…

Orson Welles by Jean Cocteau (from the frontispiece of André Bazin’s book on Welles) Orson Welles and Jean Cocteau first met at a performance of…

After last year’s surprising choice of Bob Dylan to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, some observers surely saw it coming that the prototypical trickster…

It’s axiomatic that William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch is one of the landmark accomplishments of 20th-century American literature. All the more striking its author’s commitment…