Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader finally brings the author's actual writing back to the forefront. . . . A fantastic, weird, disturbing, and intriguing tribute to an inimitable American voice.--Mark Luce, Salon.
Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader finally brings the author's actual writing back to the forefront. . . . A fantastic, weird, disturbing, an...
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...
A man, dispirited by ageing, endeavours to steal a younger man's face; a doctor yearns for a virus that might eliminate his discomfort by turning everyone else into doubles of himself; a Colonel lays out the precepts of the life of DE (Do Easy); and conspi
A man, dispirited by ageing, endeavours to steal a younger man's face; a doctor yearns for a virus that might eliminate his discomfort by turning ever...
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 ...
