On a balmy night in 1951, a horrifying incident forever altered the trajectory of literary icon William S. Burroughs. His wife, Joan Vollmer, a deeply intelligent and troubled figure in her own right, was killed by a single gunshot wound to the head during what Burroughs described as a botched "William Tell" stunt.

If you know the name Oscar Zeta Acosta at all, you probably know him as Dr. Gonzo, the "300-pound Samoan attorney" who staggers through Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas at Hunter S. Thompson's side. That's a real disservice to the actual man. Acosta was a Mexican-American civil rights lawyer who spent the late 1960s taking on the Los Angeles legal system from the inside and beating it more than once, using tactics serious enough that they're still studied today. He also disappe

Born in 1882 in Ohio, Gay Ludwig Hitler had the misfortune of sharing a surname with one of history's worst monsters. He never changed his name. This is the strange, quietly tragic story of Dr Gay Hitler, small-town dentist.