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William S. Burroughs: A Life
Barry MilesWilliam Burroughs: El Hombre Invisible. London: Virgin, 1992. ———. The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso in Paris, 1957– 1963. New York: Grove, 2000. Morgan, Ted. Literary Outlaw: TheLife and Times of William S. Burroughs.
Sharp Eyes: John Burroughs and American Nature Writing
PreviewElizabeth Donaldson IN 1903, naturalist John Burroughs published "Real and Sham Natural History" in the Atlantic Monthly, beginning a famous, sometimes bitter, public debate that would later become known as the nature fakers controversy.
William S. Burroughs vs. The Qur'an
Michael Muhammad KnightWhether this depiction of Alamut was historically ac- curate did not seem to matter; Burroughs wrote that since Sabbah had left ... When Williams questioned Sabbah's amoralism, Burroughs answered, “It's obvious that what you want to do is, ...
The Green Ghost: William Burroughs and the Ecological Mind
Chad WeidnerMicheal Sean Bolton says that not only does Burroughs' writing problematize the narrative voice, but “through the notion of the word virus, [Burroughs] institutes a host/parasite binary within the individual's subjectivity,” which results in what can ...
John James Audubon
John BurroughsThis is American Naturalist John Burroughs' 1902 biography of John James Audubon. John James Audubon (1785 – 1851) was an American ornithologist, painter, and naturalist.
William S. Burroughs
Jennie SkerlDiscusses the development of William S. Burroughs' career as a writer and analyzes the themes and techniques of his novels
Interzone
William S BurroughsInterzone portrays the development of Burroughs's mature writing style by presenting a selection of pieces from the mid-1950s.
William S. Burroughs at the front: critical reception, 1959-1989
Jennie SkerlThe essays cover Burroughs’ major novels—including the cut-up and new trilogies—the censorship issue, and his work in film and painting.
Gospel Fear
Jeremiah BurroughsIn 7 sermons on Isaiah 66:2 (But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word) and 2 Kings 22:19, Burroughs encourages us to cultivate a tender heart by cultivating a healthy fear of ...
Jerusalem's Glory Breaking Forth into the World:
Jeremiah BurroughsThis classic work by Jeremiah Burroughs is a series of sermons that will ignite the prayer life of the Christian to press God to fulfill all that He has promised.
The Adding Machine: Selected Essays
William S. BurroughsBurroughs reviews his reviewers, explains his famous "cup-up" method, and discusses the role coincidence has played in his life and his work.
Conversations with William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs" Kazin's view applies as well for the other interviews in this collection. Allen Hibbard is an associate professor of English and the director of graduate studies at Middle Tennessee State University.
My Education: A Book of Dreams
William S BurroughsAlways a rich source of imagery in Burroughs's own fiction, in this book dreams become a direct and powerful force in themselves.
The Excellency of Holy Courage in Evil Times:
Jeremiah BurroughsPuritan works by Jeremiah Burroughs are always chock-full of sound doctrine, exemplifying God’s grace and the truth of the Gospel. This book is no exception. It is a work that in his day, and ours, has profound applications.
Nova Express
William S BurroughsThe third book of Burroughs's linguistically prophetic 'cut-up' trilogy - following The Soft Machine and The Ticket That Exploded - Nova Express is a hilarious and Swiftian parody of bureaucracy and the frailty of the human animal.
Forever Stardust: David Bowie Across the Universe
Will BrookerOne way into understanding this approach to Bowie is through Micheal Sean Bolton's 2014 monograph on William Burroughs. On an immediate level, the parallels between Bowie and Burroughs are extremely suggestive. Bowie, of course ...
Queer Burroughs
J. RussellIn Jennie Skerl and Robin Lydenberg, eds.William S. Burroughs: At the Front: Critical Reception, 1959–1989. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991, pp. 197–208. Shepherd, Simon, and Mick Wallis, eds.
The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs
William S BurroughsProduced at a time when he was at his most extreme and messianic, The Job lays out his abrasive, incisive, paranoiac, maddened and maddening worldview in interviews interspersed with stories and other writing.
The Catholic Library World
More editionsFemme Noir: Bad Girl of Film By Karen Burroughs Hannsberry, McFarland, 1998, 633 pp., ISBN 0-7864-0429-9, $95.00. In this hefty and expensive dictionary, Karen Burroughs Hannsberry provides brief biographies of forty- nine women who ...
Beat Culture: Lifestyles, Icons, and Impact
PreviewA quick review of Burroughs is available in Jennie Skerl, “William S. Burroughs,” in The Beats: Literary Bohemians in Postwar America, 16, The Dictionary of Literary Biography, ed. Ann Charters, 1983; a comprehensive critical biography is Ted ...
William S. Burroughs
Phil BakerIn William S. Burroughs, Phil Baker investigates this cult writer’s life and work—from small-town Kansas to New York in the ’40s, Mexico and the South American jungle, to Tangier and the writing of Naked Lunch, to Paris and the Beat ...
Annual Report of the State Board of Education, Together with ...
More editions... Lizzie E. Olney, Abby M. B. Slade. Harriet M. While. Agnes F. Williams, Florence A. Williams. Grammar Schools. Mary L. Brown, Kate K. Bull, Eleanor II. Burroughs, Laura C. Burroughs, Annie E. Campbell, Annie Carnoe, Charlotte K. Clarke, ...
Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. ...
William S. BurroughsIn late summer 1953, as he returned to Mexico City after a seven-month expedition through the jungles of Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru, William Burroughs began a notebook of final reflections on his four years in Latin America.
Esquire
William S. BurroughsJohn Groth has a book coming out, this month of November, 1970, and we're making of this page a frank attempt to be the first place to honor it, on the perfectly logical grounds that while John Groth's work is at home the world over by now, this ...
The Moon Maid
Edgar Rice BurroughsThe moon maid is Edgar Rice Burroughs's stunning epic of a world conquered by alien invaders from the moon and of the hero Julian, who champions the earth's struggle for freedom, peace, and dignity.
The Facts on Roman Catholicism
John AnkerbergWell-known authors and researchers John Ankerberg, John Weldon, and Dillon Burroughs have updated and revised The Facts on Roman Catholicism, an important title from the popular Facts On Series (more than 1.9 million copies of books from ...
The Facts on Jehovah's Witnesses
John AnkerbergJohn Ankerberg, John Weldon, and Dillon Burroughs team up to revise and update The Facts on Jehovah_s Witnesses, part of the popular Facts On Series (more than 1.9 million copies of books from this series sold).
The Facts on the Mormon Church
John AnkerbergWell-known authors and noted researchers John Ankerberg, John Weldon, and Dillon Burroughs have updated and revised The Facts on the Mormon Church, a significant title from the popular Facts On Series (more than 1.9 million copies of books ...
The Facts on Islam
John AnkerbergJohn Ankerberg, John Weldon, and Dillon Burroughs team up to revise and update "The Facts on Islam, " a popular Facts On book (more than 1.9 million copies of books from this series sold).
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