Oooh, that Wright book is fascinating and frightening. I've also read the other one, "Inside Scientology."
His Battlefield Earth books have been printed in stunning quantities; whether anyone outside the CoS is buying them in bulk is anyone's guess.
I have an L. Ron book called Fear. My Dad had it and I read it when I was about 10. Scared the hell out of me. I tracked it down years later. I was shocked to see it was by L. Ron.
Hubbard was a fairly competent pulp writer in the last great era when you could make a living doing that. Harlan Ellison and LRH apparently knew each other in that phase of their careers.
The new-ish Burroughs biography (which is excellent) details how deeply Bill got sucked into the cult, to his social and artistic detriment, until he finally broke with them over LRH's dictatorial tendencies.
This one goes out to Doug -- who hipped us to this great Nawa album. Recorded under not great conditions (ie, let's put this stuff on tape before the whole tradition is decimated).
I once a scientologist coworker, until they told him he couldn't work outside anymore. What puzzled me was how blatant a money grab it all is. They're pretty upfront about it, but it still works. That Nawa track was great, BTW
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Yeah, I think the jazz writer Howard Mandel should henceforth be known to one and all as Howie.
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Also, finally read the recent John Jeremiah Sullivan piece; worth the wait.
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His Battlefield Earth books have been printed in stunning quantities; whether anyone outside the CoS is buying them in bulk is anyone's guess.
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Impressed/astonished/creeped is the reaction many of GTDR's bedside partners would volunteer, if asked.
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The new-ish Burroughs biography (which is excellent) details how deeply Bill got sucked into the cult, to his social and artistic detriment, until he finally broke with them over LRH's dictatorial tendencies.
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