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Crime and Books

These originally appeared in Creative Loafing sometime between 1989 and 1991.

The Crime: Jaywalking

Required Texts

• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner.
• The Road Less Traveled by M Scott Peck.
• The Mystery of Bigfoot by Randall Mark.

Banned Texts

• On The Road by Jack Kerouac.
• Rabbit Run by John Updike.
• The Long March 1935: The Epic of Chinese Communism's Survival by Dick Wilson

The Crime: Sodomy

Required Texts

• Deliverance by James Dickey
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubern Selby
• Course in General Linguistices by Ferdinand de Daussui

Banned Texts

• Against Nature by Huymans
• The Collected Works The Marquis de Sade

The Crime: Insider Trading

Requierd Texts

• Day of the Locust by Nathaniel West
• Blue Skies, No Candy by Erica Jong
• Fascism and Big Business by Daniel Guerin
• Don't Bend Over in the Trading Pit, Granny, Them Traders Got Eyes by Lewis Grizzard

Banned Texts

• The Art of the Deal by Donald Trump
• The Preppy Handbook by Lisa Birnbach
• The Making of 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous' by Spike Lee

The original article had five listings. Unfortunatly, I've only kept these three.

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