This has to be the strangest selection I've ever attempted on Interrobang. A book of dark poetry by the director of Beetlejuice, Sleepy Hollow, and the Nightmare Before Christmas, this is decidedly quirky and oddball. Fun, though.

You can read the entire book here: http://homepage.eircom.net/~sebulbac/burton/home.html

My playlist is here: http://www.smithersradio.com/stationplaylist/interrobang-playlist-08282012

When I first read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson, I read it cover to cover in a single sitting. It's one of those books that pulls you into another world, in this case a debaucherous, drug-fueled frenzy in the American Capital of Sin. It is, in every way, a crazy work of creative literary genius. Hunter Thompson has a remarkable ability, in his writing, to somehow remain coherent with his commentary on society and culture, while simultaneously exploring the realms of complete and total incoherence. Paradoxical? You bet.

A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan was published in 2010 by Anchor Books, in Canada by Random House. The book met with near fanatical critical acclaim and following its publication, it won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. It is an extraordinary book. The novel follows the lives of two main characters and a group of friends, acquaintances, and colleagues, flashing from their youth to their middle age and back again several times.