An autobiographical novel written in a confessional, pulp-fiction style, JUNKY is the story of heroin addict William Lee, who is forced to travel as a result of his drug underworld connections.
NAKED LUNCH, the controversial masterpiece by Beat Generation founding father William S. Burroughs, has the distinction of being the last novel banned in the United States. Decried as obscene, the novel uses frank and extremely graphic depictions of drug use and sex as metaphors for the human condition: all of humanity, Burroughs feels, is ...
'Junk is not, like alcohol or a weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.' In this complete and unexpurgated edition of Burroughs' famous book, he depicts the addict's life: his hallucinations, his ghostly noctural wanderings, his strange sexuality and his hunger for the needle. "Junky" remains one of ...
Written at the same time as JUNKY, QUEER revolves around a homosexual relationship in Mexico City, and William Lee's search for the mythical hallucinogen yage in South America. Because of its themes of homosexuality and drug use, this book would not find a publisher until 1986.
More than sixty years ago, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac sat down inNew York City to write a novel about the summer of 1944, when one of their friends killed another in a moment of brutal and tragic bloodshed. The two authors were then at the dawn of their careers, having yet to write anything of note. Alternating chapters and narrators, ...
Reedited by Burroughs scholar Barry Miles and Burroughs' longtime editor James Grauerholz, "Naked Lunch: The Restored Text" includes many editorial corrections to errors present in previous editions, and incorporates Burroughs' notes on the text, several essays he wrote over the years about the book, and an appendix of 20 percent all-new material.
Three stories are interwoven in this novel. Clem Snide, a private detective, has to solve a case of ritual murder. In the Gobi Desert 100,000 years ago, a red virus has erupted. And in the 18th century, gay pirates have set up their own republics in South America and are at war with the conquistadors (Burroughs also uses this last theme in his ...
Hanged soldiers, North African street urchins, addicted narcotic agents, Spanish rent boys, evil doctors, corrupt judges and monsters from the mythology of history or the laboratories of science - Burroughs is truly the Hieronymous Bosch of our time. In this surreal, savage and brilliantly funny sequel to Naked Lunch, Burroughs's famous 'cut-up' ...
In the third part of the Nova Tetralogy, Burroughs uses the cut-up technique to explore language systems in this continuing saga of the Nova Mob and its totalitarian hold on humanity. Known for exploding notions of plot, structure, logic, and rationality, and reducing narrative to an entirely personal, metaphorical account, Burroughs again uses ...
In this Part Four of the Nova Tetralogy, Burroughs swerves deeper into science fiction with space battles between the Nova Mob and planet Earth. Here, Burroughs offers the concept of writing as a way of holding out against totalitarianism.
The first major book about spying from space and the men who do it, describing the full extent of U.S. space espionage and illuminating the question about whether we can adequately verify what is going on in the world of police arms and control treaties. Photographs.
A glimpse into the subconscious of the author of JUNKY, NAKED LUNCH, and NOVA EXPRESS. Dreams have always been a rich source of imagery for Burroughs. In MY EDUCATION they form the core of the book. Embodying and exploring the author's unique and provocative ideas on writing, painting, and creativity, MY EDUCATION is also profoundly personal, and ...
This second book in Burroughs's Western Lands trilogy, which begins with CITIES OF THE RED NIGHT and concludes with THE WESTERN LANDS, follows the story of Kim Carsons and the Wild Fruits, an outlaw gang that travels across space and time to wage war against aliens and tries to create its own free society where homosexuality won't be persecuted.
Lectures and essays on writers (Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Kerouac, and Beckett) and Burroughs's own writing technique, as well as writing advice and thoughts on his own career. This selection of Burroughs's wise and witty essays was called "wonderfully entertaining" by the Chicago Sun-Times.
The Wild Boys is a futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to freedom battles the organized armies of repressive police states. Making full use of his inimitable humor, wild imagination, and style, Burroughs creates a world that is as terrifying as it is fascinating.
"Rebels & Devils" brings together some of the most talented, controversial and rebellious people of all time. Many - such as William S. Burroughs, Dr Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson and Aleister Crowley - are world famous. Others contributors, such as James Wasserman, S Jason Black and Peter J Carroll, are well-accomplished in their own fields. ...
In an inspired touch, RE/Search publisher V. Vale brought together the work of groundbreaking novelist William Burroughs and avant-garde painter Brion Gysin (already linked by their collaborations in the "cut-up" method of artistic creation) with the founders of industrial music, Throbbing Gristle, for this seminal document of '80s underground ...
Author Burroughs' son, who died at of the age of 34, penned two shattering autobiographical novels which offer his vision of alienated youth at its most raw and uncensored. "A compelling narrative that balances the methedrine horrors with the outcast's romantic search for identity".--Rolling Stone.
Burroughs's diaries from his last nine months are brilliant riffs on everything Burroughs held dear: the idiocy of American drug policy, the decline of civilization in general, the comfort he drew from his beloved cats, as well as--sadly--the deaths of friends, his own medical problems, and his preparations for death.
The honest, gutsy, often painful autobiography of the hustler, drug addict, con man, and street poet Herbert Huncke, a major influence on Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs who was known as the father of the Beat Beneration.
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