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Please join us at the Poetic Research Bureau for a conversation between Norman Ohler and Ian Svenonius, launching Ohler’s latest book *Tripped*. ~ In *Tripped*, Norman Ohler, author of the New York Times bestseller *Blitzed*, returns with a fresh, provocative examination of how Nazi experiments into psychedelics influenced CIA research and secretly shaped America’s War on Drugs. ~ **NORMAN OHLER** is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter, and journalist. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller *Blitzed*, the non-fiction book *The Bohemians* about resistance against Hitler in Berlin, as well as the novels *Die Quotenmaschine* (the world’s first hypertext novel), *Mitte*, *Stadt des Goldes* (translated into English as *Ponte City*), as well as the historical crime novel *Die Gleichung des Lebens*. He was cowriter of the script for Wim Wenders’s film *Palermo Shooting*. He lives in Berlin. **IAN F. SVENONIUS** is the author of the underground best sellers *Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock ‘n’ Roll Group*, *The Psychic Soviet*, and *Censorship Now!!* He was also the host of VBS.tv’s Soft Focus, where he interviewed Mark E. Smith, Genesis P. Orridge, Chan Marshall, Ian MacKaye, and others. As a musician he has created more than twenty albums and countless singles in various rock and roll combos (Escape-ism, Chain & the Gang, The Make-Up, The Nation of Ulysses, etc.). He lives in Los Angeles, CA. *Against the Written Word* is his latest work. Presented by Poetic Research Bureau. This is an 18+ event