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Running With Scissors

Running With Scissors

Augusten Burroughs

'This is the Brady Bunch on Viagra... it is impossible not to laugh at all the jokes; to admire the sardonic, fetid tone; to wonder, slack-jawed and agog, at the sheer looniness of the vista he conjures up' Rachel Cooke, Observer This is ...
Guts: The Endless Follies and Tiny Triumphs of a Giant Disaster

Guts: The Endless Follies and Tiny Triumphs of a Giant Disaster

Kristen Johnston

Guts is a true achievement—a memoir that manages to be as frank and revealing as Augusten Burroughs, yet as hilarious and witty as David Sedaris.
The Long Journey Home: A Memoir

The Long Journey Home: A Memoir

Margaret Robison

The mother of the bestselling memoirists Augusten Burroughs and John Elder Robison finally tells her own heartbreaking story of her Southern Gothic childhood, tormented marriage, motherhood, mental breakdown, and journey back to sanity and ...
William S. Burroughs: A Life

William S. Burroughs: A Life

Barry Miles

William 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.
William S. Burroughs vs. The Qur'an

William S. Burroughs vs. The Qur'an

Michael Muhammad Knight

Whether 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

The Green Ghost: William Burroughs and the Ecological Mind

Chad Weidner

Micheal 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  ...
William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs

Jennie Skerl

Discusses the development of William S. Burroughs' career as a writer and analyzes the themes and techniques of his novels
Interzone

Interzone

William S Burroughs

Interzone 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

William S. Burroughs at the front: critical reception, 1959-1989

Jennie Skerl

The essays cover Burroughs’ major novels—including the cut-up and new trilogies—the censorship issue, and his work in film and painting.
Gospel Fear

Gospel Fear

Jeremiah Burroughs

In 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:

Jerusalem's Glory Breaking Forth into the World:

Jeremiah Burroughs

This 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

The Adding Machine: Selected Essays

William S. Burroughs

Burroughs 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

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

My Education: A Book of Dreams

William S Burroughs

Always 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:

The Excellency of Holy Courage in Evil Times:

Jeremiah Burroughs

Puritan 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.
Forever Stardust: David Bowie Across the Universe

Forever Stardust: David Bowie Across the Universe

Will Brooker

One 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 ...
Nova Express

Nova Express

William S Burroughs

The 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.
Queer Burroughs

Queer Burroughs

J. Russell

In 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

The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs

William S Burroughs

Produced 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

The Catholic Library World

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Femme 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

Beat Culture: Lifestyles, Icons, and Impact

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A 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

William S. Burroughs

Phil Baker

In 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 ...

Annual Report of the State Board of Education, Together with ...

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... 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. ...

Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. ...

William S. Burroughs

In 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.
Sharp Eyes: John Burroughs and American Nature Writing

Sharp Eyes: John Burroughs and American Nature Writing

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Elizabeth 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.
The Moon Maid

The Moon Maid

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The 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 Spots of the Godly and of the Wicked:

The Spots of the Godly and of the Wicked:

Jeremiah Burroughs

Jeremiah Burroughs. Third. Sermon,. Updated. August the 10th, 1645 e now come to show the differences between the spots of wicked men, and godly men, in the different behavior of their souls about their sin. You shall find that the carriage ...
Before the Computer: IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand ...

Before the Computer: IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand ...

James W. Cortada

IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the Industry They Created, 1865-1956 James W. Cortada ... Abuse of Power (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1986); Franklin M. Fisher, James W. McKie, and Richard B. Mancke, IBM and the U.S. Data ...

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