Laid out as diary entries of the last nine months of Burroughs's life, Last Words spans the realms of cultural criticism, personal memoir, and fiction. Classic Burroughs concerns--literature, U.S. drug policy, the state of humanity, his love for his cats--permeate this poignant portrait of the man, his life, and the creative process.
Laid out as diary entries of the last nine months of Burroughs's life, Last Words spans the realms of cultural criticism, personal memoir, and fiction...
Trenchant writings by that sardonic "hombre invisible," William Seward Burroughs, perpetrator of "Naked Lunch" and other shockers. These malefic and beatific, mordant and hilarious straight-face reports on life are mostly from scatter-shot publications in obscure places, foreign and domestic. Including complete texts from "White Subway," "Cobblestone Gardens," and "The Retreat Diaries," this collection delineates Burroughs' comprehensive world-view and his "insurrectionary sense of America's underside, as Tom Carson epitomized it in "The Village Voice."
Also included are essays on...
Trenchant writings by that sardonic "hombre invisible," William Seward Burroughs, perpetrator of "Naked Lunch" and other shockers. These malefic an...
Although a rather shy, private man, William Burroughs gave a good many interviews during his lifetime, some in prominent publications, others in obscure forums. The interviews collected here provide an aperture into the philosophies, methods, and quirks of a man who wrote Queer, Junky, Naked Lunch, Nova Express, Cities of the Red Night, My Education, and many other works.
When he died in 1997, Burroughs was likely one of the most widely recognizable figures in contemporary American literature. His image circulated on album jackets, in Nike commercials, and in films, as though proving...
Although a rather shy, private man, William Burroughs gave a good many interviews during his lifetime, some in prominent publications, others in ob...
Although a rather shy, private man, William Burroughs gave a good many interviews during his lifetime, some in prominent publications, others in obscure forums. The interviews collected here provide an aperture into the philosophies, methods, and quirks of a man who wrote Queer, Junky, Naked Lunch, Nova Express, Cities of the Red Night, My Education, and many other works.
When he died in 1997, Burroughs was likely one of the most widely recognizable figures in contemporary American literature. His image circulated on album jackets, in Nike commercials, and in films, as though proving...
Although a rather shy, private man, William Burroughs gave a good many interviews during his lifetime, some in prominent publications, others in ob...
Burroughs's letters show the development of both the man and the writer, vividly documenting his (often turbulent) personal and cultural history. The collection provides a key to opening up and contextualizing Burroughs's fiction, but more than that it shows how letter-writing was itself integral to his life and creative process.
Burroughs's letters show the development of both the man and the writer, vividly documenting his (often turbulent) personal and cultural history. The ...
