Today Covered and Bound featured "Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs and Cheap Labour" a look at America's black market by investigative reporter, Eric Schlosser. Schlosser looks at three of the black market's main supports; pot, porn and illegal immigrants. These obscure economies have a wide range of influence on American society, they comprise 10 percent or more of America's overall economy and they are growing. These undercover economies are a mainstay of what represents American culture; hypocrisy, greed, and idealism. This award winning author also wrote, "Fast Food Nation:The Dark Side of the American Meal" and "Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food.
The Eric Schlosser lecture will continues next week.
We are looking forward to our Book Club reading for a month or two, The Road of Excess:A History of Writers on Drugs by Marcus Boon which is part of our goal, featuring York Writers for the New Year. Professor Boon's book, is a fascinating read which deals with the subject of writers that use drugs from the time of Homer's Odyssey to William Burroughs Naked Lunch.
Marcus Boon is an Associate Professor of English here at York University and he teaches contemporary literature and theory.
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