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J. R. Helton's first novel Drugs, a modern homage to William S. Burrough's classic Junky, introduced the world to his wry writing and unique genre of fictionalized memoir. A professor of writing at the collegiate level, Heltonhas also published two memoirs and a number of short stories-for one of which he won an Honorable Mention Pushcart Prize-and poems in such literary magazines asThe Sun,The Missouri Review, and Mineshaft. He lives, writes, and teaches in Texas.
J. R. Helton really speaks to me--starkly honest, darkly funny, acutely observant, and captures the tragic absurdity of human life. . . . [H]e's right up there with the best of them. --Robert Crumb, cartoonist and musician This guy Helton could be the next Bukowski. --Terry Zwigoff, director of Crumb and Ghost World If Mark Twain had snorted coke, chomped on painkillers like they were Tic Tacs and huffed enough nitrous to keep a fleet of dental surgery patients grinning, Drugs is the book he'd have written. -- Tony O'Neill, author of Digging the Vein and Sick City
