Paul Teetor

In musical terms, author Charles Jackson was a one-hit wonder, the literary equivalent of Right Said Fred or Sir Mix-a-Lot. Put under the microscope, however, one-hit wonders can make a better story than superstars — huge early success followed by unending failure is potentially more dramatic than an unbroken series......

If you're embittered Civil War veteran John Wayne and Indians kill your brother's family, burn down the family farm and abduct your cute 8-year-old niece (who might actually be your biological daughter), naturally you have to set out on an obsessive quest to rescue her and bring her back to......

Steve Mullins, a straight man in Sylacauga, Ala., didn't know what to say when his closeted gay friend, Billy Jack Gaither, told him out of the blue that he'd like to suck his dick. So Mullins remained speechless. But his mind was racing. In fact, the 25-year-old Mullins would later......

Jerry Stahl knows heroin — the good, the bad and the literary. That's why Stahl was the perfect choice to be editor of The Heroin Chronicles, an anthology of 13 chasing-the-dragon stories by junkies and ex-junkies. Released Jan. 1, the third entry in the Akashic Drug Chronicles Series (after The......

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