[Denis Johnson]

October, 2007

Novelist Jonathan Lethem's picks for mind-altering readsThe list below consists of books most likely to be enjoyed on psychotropic jour­neys, whether of the mild leafy variety or otherwise. Not that I'm recommendinganything illegal. This is as opposed to another possible list of those books (from Thomas De Quincey's Confes­sions of an English Opium-Eater to Wil­liam Burroughs's Junky to Geoffrey O'Brien's Dream Time) that best represent drug activi-ties literally. The works named here mostly ski...