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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

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
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  ...
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Queer

Queer

William S. Burroughs

Set in Mexico City during the early fifities, the story follows William Lee from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene as he pursues a young man named Allerton.
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.
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 ...
Exterminator! A Novel

Exterminator! A Novel

William S. Burroughs

The hypocrisy of contemporary society is the focal point of this novel about various forms of extermination
Cities of the Red Night

Cities of the Red Night

William S Burroughs

These stories are woven together in a single tale of mayhem and chaos.
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.
The Genres of the Irish literary revival

The Genres of the Irish literary revival

Ronald Schleifer

... Maurice: 28 Boyd Ernest: 153 Brown, Jim: 61-63, 75, 79, 85 Brown, Stephen: 154 Bruno, Francini: 101 Buchanan, Robert: 95 Burroughs, William: 95 Bushe, Seymour: 97 Carlton, William: 13, 18, 160 Catullus: 91 Chesterton, G. K.: 146 Clark, ...
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 ...
Mosaic of Juxtaposition: William S. Burroughs’ Narrative ...

Mosaic of Juxtaposition: William S. Burroughs’ Narrative ...

Micheal Sean Bolton

Yet, these novels continue to generate new interest and inspire new insights among an increasing and evolving readership.
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, ...
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.
Naked Lunch:

Naked Lunch:

William S. Burroughs

Bill Lee, an addict-hustler, travels to Mexico and then Tangier in order to find easy access to drugs, and ends up in the Interzone, a bizarre fantasy world

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