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featuring Marc Cohen, Teaching Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature The first literary addiction memoir Forging a link between artistic self-expression and addiction, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater seamlessly weaves the effects of drugs and the nature of dreams, memory, and imagination....it paved the way for later generations of literary drug users, from Baudelaire to Burroughs, and anticipated psychoanalysis with its insights into the subconscious. —Penguin Random House Confessions of an English Opium-Eater remains its author’s most famous and…