About 3 years ago I read a fantastic piece by Nick Tosches in Vanity Fair. Recently I found out that The Last Opium Den is also available as a book.

Originally an article in Vanity Fair (where it purportedly received the biggest reader response of editor-in-chief Graydon Carter’s tenure), the book’s brevity will leave readers itching for another hit of Tosches’s finely turned prose.

Highly recommended.