I discovered Ammon Hillman through friends. Guy friends, I guess I should say. One in particular (Hi Troy) said Hillman's scholarship reminded him of my poetry. What Hillman deals in is more extreme than anything I've written, but I can take a compliment. I can take an insult too.

Technically a scholar of Roman pharmacy and a teacher of Ancient Greek, Hillman struck me instantly as a character out of a Burroughs novel: he is the very substance he joneses for and teaches about — a wild mind of peculiar, almost illegal-feeling equipoise at the center of a lurid world.

But Ammon Hillman serves a Lady, and this is something the avant garde could use a lesson in. Burroughs, of course, murdered his wife. Hillman is going to teach us a thing or two about Medea.

I've invited him—and his brilliant daughter Chewy—to exit the internet and meet us in reality, with a “lecture” on Lady Babylon herself, the day after Easter.
— Ariana Reines