He would later bribe a French morgue attendant to slice off a bit

March 21, 2017 5:08 PM

An early 20th-century journalist and travel writer, William Buehler Seabrook was once among the most successful wordsmiths of his day. He joined camel raids in Arabia, attended voodoo rites in Haiti, and supped with cannibal kings in Africa. Along the way, he became friendly with Aleister Crowley, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and many of the other most notorious figures of his era.
posted by Chrysostom (2 comments total)

"neck meat"
posted by late afternoon dreaming hotel at 6:10 PM on March 21, 2017 [1 favorite]

Never heard of him. Curious, I looked into google books and found The Magic Island

The first random sentence I found: "The Brigade was installed precisely in the Guillaume Sam palace before whose gates, only ten years before, a black woman had been biting chunks of that defunct president’s bleeding heart."

Not really my sort of thing. I'm more a camel raid kind of guy.
posted by IndigoJones at 5:50 AM on March 22, 2017