Gonzo

(Note: The following is a longish excerpt from a short story by the enigmatic great Urdu author Naiyer Masud.

Primo Levi is a deeply unsettling writer.

From the book WORKING, by Studs Terkel This book, being about work, is, by its very nature, about violence—to the spirit as well as to the body.

Extract from Primo Levi’s book If This Is A Man, from the chapter The Drowned and the Saved.

I am on a bus, going home. 9 pm, the daily commute.

Vinod Mehta died today.

The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test is a tough book to read.

YOU WEREN’T BORN choking on no silver spoon, you know how it goes when you go looking for a job and you need one: You wait in the first indifferent room, ink in the forms, apply in another room with linoleum that’s waxy and squeaks and overhead lights that

“I think human consciousness was a tragic misstep in evolution.

The following discussion is from the Introduction to the otherwise shallow non-fiction book The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains (Pictures are not part of the book) The Author is discussing the 1964 book, Understanding Media: The Extensi…