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Jeff Goldberg is best known as a writer about psychoactive drugs, their cultural history and how they work in the brain. He is the author of an on-the-scene account of the discovery of endorphins Anatomy of a Scientific Discovery, and a history of opium Flowers in the Blood. “Poor Dumb Bum” is part of his collection of stories titled Anti-Memoir.

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Poor Dumb Bum

Jeff Goldberg

I was fucking Rosie Fox on a pool table in the basement of a Lower East Side club called Quando. Rosie’s miniskirt was hiked to her waist, her panties were somewhere on the floor, her ass was positioned over the side pocke...
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24 selected poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky, translated and with commentary by Jenny Wade
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not quite poems, not quite journal entries, meta-factual snapshots of everyday Paris life
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Short stories about a neer-do-well junky in the demi-monde of '70s New York City
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A collection of mind-crossing, relentless poems—the work of a person abiding in two worlds, never quite comfortable in either.
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Malaga
Drone Loops and the Signature of Bliss
Jeff Goldberg
The experience of bliss means different things to different people. For this frustratingly former arranger and studio keyboard player, euphoria is conditioned by the search for pe...
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We Are All Alice B. Toklas
Jeff Goldberg
Toklasization, being the condition of failing to materialize in one’s autobiography, or of being ghostwritten out by a biographer with more vanity than ours, has become the most ...
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Richard Kern drawing by David West
David West Drawings
Jeff Goldberg
Strange Neighbour Gallery in Melbourne is showing some of my work in Australia for the first time, focusing on my portrait and music drawings, along with the excellent work of ...
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Sun Ra – Live at SummerStage, Central Park, 1986
Jeff Goldberg
SummerStage was established by the Central Park Conservancy to bring a diverse selection of music to the park in a series of free performances during the summer months. The first c...
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Episode 18 – Rob Roberge
Jeff Goldberg
Rob Roberge in conversation with Bernard Meisler. Rob Roberge Rob Roberge, novelist (The Cost of Living, More Than They Could Chew, etc.), memoirist (Liar) and guitarist (The...
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