by Liv Albright

All-Night Pharmacy – Ruth Madievsky

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Despite the sedating effects of the opioids the narrator consumes, Madievsky’s prose is clear and insightful, rivaling William S. Burroughs’s dizzying classic, Naked Lunch.

Madison Smartt Bell

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In the first world, we learn to be extremely afraid of anything that disrupts the hegemony of the ego.