Weaving the brackish humor of Chuck Palahniuk with the empathy of Barbara Ehrenreich, Helton brings to life an obscured underside of the American psyche in this unflinching account of life inside the working class of Texas in the 1980s.
Expands the lectures given at a regional conference in Lincoln, Nebraska which brought together a wide variety of scientists, pure mathematicians and engineers.
A modern homage to William S. Burrough's classic Junky, the new novel Drugs is the sparse, beautifully unassuming account of one man's life of drug use. As Robert Crumb, who illustrated the book jacket, says, "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." This fictionalized memoir is told in masterfully wry, ...
East Texas in the 1960s is not the worst place to have grown up, but for narrator Jake of The Jugheads, it was a minefield. Describing clearly and courageously first jobs and first kisses, family vacations and family fights, Jake takes us through a wild ride of a coming of age, in an ordinary American family that he believes is as violent and dysfunctional as they come. By turns hilarious and moving, The Jugheads is a compelling return to form...
Movies the replaced the circus and the carnival as the travelling sideshow for the misses of America today providing longed for escape from day-to-day really. In the actual movie business, one is either above the line or below the line, the demarcation where the real money and power starts and stops in a personal attempt to separate fact from fiction the author takes a look at the beautiful, and the not so-beautiful, people who work in films, ...
