Genius and Heroin
The Illustrated Catalogue of Creativity, Obsession and Reckless Abandon Through the Ages
"What is the price of brilliance?"
Publisher
HarperCollins
Year
2008
ISBN
978-0061466410
Why are so many creative geniuses also ruinously self-destructive? From Caravaggio to Jackson Pollock, from Arthur Rimbaud to Jack Kerouac, from Charlie Parker to Janis Joplin and Kurt Cobain, artists throughout history have binged, pill-popped, injected, or poisoned themselves for their art. Fully illustrated and addictively readable, Genius and Heroin chronicles how the notoriously creative lived and died.
Reviews
"Michael Largo Is A Curator Of Death... you will enjoy the detailed descriptions of suicide, overdose, and otherwise untimely demise."
Esquire
"Largo has now become the Capote of kaput."
Atlanta Journal Constitution
"Absurdly entertaining."
Los Angeles Times
"Meticulous, fascinating, and often intriguingly bizarre.... I am full of admiration for Michael Largo's achievement."
Simon Winchester
Author of The Professor and the Madman
"Genius and Heroin makes for mad good reading on the divinely inspired, hopelessly self-destructive class."
Elle
"For the obsessive-compulsive teen in everyone."
Publisher's Weekly
