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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

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Isaac Fitzgerald

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“No less an authority than William Burroughs has called Confessions ‘the first, and still the best, book about drug addiction… No other author since has given such a completely analytical description of what it is like to be a junky from the first use to the effects of withdrawal.’”

The Washington Post explores the life of  “writer, essayist and ‘opium eater’” Thomas De Quincey.

(via TheMillions)

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Isaac Fitzgerald
Isaac Fitzgerald has been a firefighter, worked on a boat, and was once given a sword by a king, thereby accomplishing three out of five of his childhood goals. Formerly of The Rumpus and McSweeney’s and most recently the founding editor of BuzzFeed Books, Isaac is now the co-host of BuzzFeed News’ Twitter Morning Show, #AMtoDM. He also appears frequently on The Today Show to talk books, and is co-author of Pen & Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them and Knives & Ink: Chefs and the Stories Behind Their Tattoos (with Recipes) (winner of an IACP award), and the author of a YA novel and picture book forthcoming from Bloomsbury. He uses Twitter.

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