Jack Kerouac, Author, William S. Burroughs, Author, Ray Porter, Read by , read by Ray Porter. Blackstone Audio $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4332-4912-9
Distinctly different from their later works, Burroughs and Kerouac's collaborative 1945 novel (unpublished until 2008) reimagines their experience when one of their friends killed his lover. The narrative switches back and forth between authors
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William S. Burroughs. CUNY/Lost & Found, $8 trade paper (60p) ISBN 978-0-9888945-5-6
In this rediscovered text, Burroughs's impressive implementation of the cut-up technique is on full display, showcasing the writer's ability to create "constellations" by splicing together his own text with that of other writers. Perhaps a...
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William S. Burroughs, Author Serpent's Tail $14.99 (96p) ISBN 978-1-85242-406-0
Burroughs (My Education: A Book of Dreams) turns 81 this year, but, much to the delight of loyal readers, his latest fiction continues to display a febrile imagination, corrosive wit and edgy desolation recalling his preeminent early work. This...
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William S. Burroughs, Author Viking Books $21.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-670-81350-6
The noted Burroughs himself is the central character of his first novel in seven years, revisiting the site of hundreds of his dreams, a landscape ``where I get my best sets and characters.'' Numerous family members, friends and celebrities from the
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William S. Burroughs, Author Viking Books $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-81352-0
The trilogy that began with Cities of the Red Night (1981) and continued with The Place of Dead Roads (1983) is completed here, and the result is a divine comedy. Although this final volume is a significant work on its own merits, one must wade...
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William S. Burroughs, Author Calder Publications $0 (201p) ISBN 978-0-7145-4073-3
First published in England, this miscellany is neither bizarre nor outrageous nor prurient. It is instead insightful, informed and consistently interesting. These 42 short pieces include autobiographical sketches, literary criticism, political...
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William S. Burroughs, Author Viking Books $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-80833-5
In an introduction, Burroughs observes that he wrote this heretofore unpublished picaresque novel in 1951, well before Naked Lunch established his reputation. He reveals that the book had its genesis in a terrible event: his accidental shooting to...
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William S. Burroughs, Author Penguin Books $15 (208p) ISBN 978-0-14-009454-1
A memoir of sorts from beat novelist Burroughs, in which he examines his past through the medium of dreams. (June)
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William S. Burroughs, Author Penguin Books $16 (272p) ISBN 978-0-14-009456-5
``The trilogy that began with Cities of the Red Night and continued with The Place of Dead Roads is completed here, and the result is a divine comedy,'' wrote PW of this ``remarkable achievement,'' concerning the search for eternal rest that is...
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William S. Burroughs, Author, Allen Ginsberg, Author, Oliver Harris, Editor . City Lights $13.95 (127p) ISBN 978-0-87286-448-1
This epistolary novel, first published in 1963, is actually a fascinating travel log written mostly by Burroughs of a trip he made to Peru and Colombia in 1953 to track down the legendary yage vine (also called ayahuasca
), valued among the Indians...
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William S. Burroughs, Author, William E. Burrows, Author Random House (NY) $22.5 (401p) ISBN 978-0-394-54124-2
Spain banned slavery in 1817, but Spanish slavers continued to smuggle Africans into their Cuban colony, where slavery was legal. In 1839, the ship Amistad was seized by blacks being transported; the officers, misleading the insurrectionists,...
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William S. Burroughs, Author, Mark Bramhall, Read by , read by Mark Bramhall. Blackstone Audio $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4332-5967-8
William S. Burroughs’s classic tale has been fully restored by his longtime editors, Grauerholz and Miles, and is invigorated by this enthusiastic reading. Mark Bramhall offers a professional performance peppered with every trick of the actor&#
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William S. Burroughs, Author, Oliver Harris, Editor Penguin Books $27 (512p) ISBN 978-0-14-009452-7
180 letters dispatched from his self-imposed exile in East Texas, Mexico City and Tangiers chronicle Burroughs's early development as a writer.
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William S. Burroughs, Author, Oliver Harris, Editor Viking Books $25 (512p) ISBN 978-0-670-81348-3
Between July 1945 and October 1959, Burroughs, the future author of Naked Lunch , kept up a voluminous correspondence with beat compatriots Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and, to a lesser extent, with Neal Cassady, Paul Bowles and Lawrence...
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William S. Burroughs, Author, Sylvere Lotringer, Editor, Sylva]re Lotringer, Editor Semiotext(e) $29.95 (675p) ISBN 978-1-58435-010-1
For a man who hated interviews, William Burroughs (1914-1997) ended up doing quite a few of them over 30-plus years, appearing in print everywhere from Mademoiselle to Semiotext(e). Gathered for the first time in Burroughs Live: The Collected...
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William S. Burroughs, Author, James Grauerholz, Editor, Ira Silverberg, Editor Grove/Atlantic $27.5 (576p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1629-1
The deadpan granddad of postmodernism is well represented in this bountiful collection of fiction, essays and collaborations from all stages of Burroughs's (1914-1997) long career. Burroughs's companion, longtime editor and literary executor...
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William S. Burroughs, Author, James Grauerholz, Editor, James Grauerholz, Introduction by Grove/Atlantic $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1657-4
Perhaps the last-ever fix for devoted fans of Junky, Interzone and Naked Lunch, these pages trace the meditations, amusements, memories and obsessions of the noted Beat author, wit, actor and substance abuser during his last year of life (1996-1997).
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William S. Burroughs, Author, James Grauerholz, Editor, James Grauerholz, With Viking Books $17.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-670-81347-6
Burroughs seems to grow ever more trite with the passage of time, his rebellion against society a lame thing. Fans will probably enjoy this fragmentary collection of letters, journal entries, stories and autobiographical sketches from the mid-1950s.
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