Last Exit

Hubert Selby Jr., the author who eschewed pesky literary notions such as plot and punctuation in such novels as Last Exit to Brooklyn and Requiem for a Dream, has made his own ultimate egress at the age of 75. Lacking formal training, Selby wrote Exit to Brooklyn, a novel so darkly depressing that it was banned as obscene in England and parts of the United States, and was hailed as a brilliant exercise no one would want to read.