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Cursed from Birth

The Short, Unhappy Life of William S. Burroughs, Jr.

By: William S. Burroughs. Jr.

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Cursed from Birth

The Short, Unhappy Life of William S. Burroughs, Jr.

By: William S. Burroughs. Jr.

Being the son of counter-culture author William S. Burroughs is bound to be a trial. After all, the man who frequented lesbian dives and had a fascination with firearms couldn't possibly make that great of a father. Perhaps inevitably, William Jr. (called Billy) referred to himself as "cursed from birth" and in the book of the same name editor David Ohle collects parts of Billy's third and unfinished novel Prakriti Junction, his last journals and poems, and correspondence and conversations to recreate this tortured life. Endowed with the sufferings — but not the patience — of Job, Billy's life was often characterized by tragedy and frustration, although there were also pockets of success and levity. More than just the memoir of a casualty of the Beat Generation, Cursed From Birth provides rare insight in Billy's father, as well as his scene, friends, and times. It also provides an all-too-familiar story of familial difficulties that anyone with difficult parents can understand and appreciate.

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Catapult

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1933368381

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9781933368382

Speed and Kentucky Ham

By: William S. Burroughs

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Speed and Kentucky Ham

By: William S. Burroughs

A pair of autobiographical novels with “a compelling narrative that balances the methedrine horrors with the outcast’s romantic search for identity" (Rolling Stone). William S. Burroughs, Jr.—son of the legendary outlaw author of Naked Lunch—often felt he was “cursed from birth.” Following in his father’s footstep in tragically uncanny ways, Burroughs chronicled his own experiences in the novels Speed and Kentucky Ham. Each presents a methedrine-inspired odyssey, and a vision of alienated youth at its most raw and uncensored. Speed follows Billy as he hustles for dope and money, crashing in garbage-strewn apartments and guiding a paranoid friend through the perilous city streets. With tough, gritty detachment, he describes the stages of his own drug addiction and physical and emotional deterioration. Kentucky Ham takes him from the squalor of the East Village crash pads to his father's literary hideaway in Tangier, and finally to incarceration at the Federal Narcotics Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. Through both these autobiographical novels, William S. Burroughs, Jr., tells a story of generational isolation that is as relevant today as when it was first written.

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Abrams

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1468302124

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9781468302127

Speed and Kentucky Ham

By: William S. Burroughs

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By: William S. Burroughs

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1468302124

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The Letters of William S. Burroughs

Volume I: 1945-1959

By: William S. Burroughs

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The Letters of William S. Burroughs

Volume I: 1945-1959

By: William S. Burroughs

These funny, filthy, and terrifically smart letters reveal him in a way that no biographer can." -- New York Newsday Guru of the Beat generation, éminence grise of the international avant-garde, dark prophet, and blackest of satirists, William S. Burroughs has had a range of influence rivaled by few living writers. This volume of his correspondence from 1945 to 1959 vividly documents the personal and cultural history through which Burroughs developed, revealing clues to illuminate his life and keys to open up his texts. More than that, it shows how letter-writing was itself integral to his life and to his fiction. Beginning as surprisingly formal notes from the road to his friends Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, the letters deepen in substance and style. Then, in Tangier, comes a dramatic shift in voice and vision and the explosive, distinctive letters that will become Naked Lunch. Letters were lifelines for Burroughs, the outcast; and works-in-progress for Burroughs, the writer; and, they track his turbulent journey across two decades and three continents. To read them as they were written is to experience a unique merging of life and letters, the extraordinary story of Williams S. Burroughs homme de lettres. "Unrelenting impact." -- Los Angeles Reader

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Penguin

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0140094520

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9780140094527

Last Words

The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs

By: William S. Burroughs

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Last Words

The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs

By: William S. Burroughs

Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs is the most intimate book ever written by William S. Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch and one of the most celebrated literary outlaws of our time. Laid out as diary entries of the last nine months of Burroughs's life, Last Words spans the realms of cultural criticism, personal memoir, and fiction. Classic Burroughs concerns -- literature, U.S. drug policy, the state of humanity, his love for his cats -- permeate the book. Most significantly, Last Words contains some of the most personal work Burroughs has ever written, a final reckoning with his life and regrets, and his reflections on the deaths of his friends Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary. It is a poignant portrait of the man, his life, and his creative process -- one that never quit, not even in the shadow of death.

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Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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080219723X

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9780802197238

Rub Out the Words

The Letters of William S. Burroughs 1959-1974

By: William S. Burroughs

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Rub Out the Words

The Letters of William S. Burroughs 1959-1974

By: William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs was one of the twentieth century’s most iconoclastic literary and artistic figures, an inimitable writer whose groundbreaking work in novels such as Junky and Naked Lunch forever altered the shape of American culture. Now, in this long anticipated collection, editor Bill Morgan takes readers through Burroughs’ correspondence from the early sixties through the mid-seventies, in more than three hundred letters that document Burroughs’ steady drift away from the Beat circle and that witness an era in which he became the center of a new coterie of creative people who would establish his reputation as an influential artistic and cultural leader beyond the literary world, toward multimedia. Written to recipients such as Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, Timothy Leary, and Burroughs’ son, Billy Burroughs Jr., these letters shed new light on the writer’s controversial artistic process and literary experimentation, as well as his complex personal life. Here are letters to new friends in North Africa and Eur-ope—partners in Burroughs’ expatriate life—including Paul Bowles, Ian Sommerville, Michael Portman, Alex Trocchi, and the surrealist artist Brion Gysin, who became a close confidant and whose “cut-up method” would deeply influence Burroughs’ writing. An intimate glimpse into the private life of an often misunderstood artist, Rub Out the Words is also an unforgettable portrait of one of the twentieth century’s most uncompromising literary personalities.

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Harper Collins

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006209677X

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9780062096777

With William Burroughs

By: William S. Burroughs,Victor Bockris

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With William Burroughs

By: William S. Burroughs,Victor Bockris

William Burroughs, the eccentric, brilliant artist who burned a bridge with logic and wrote the classic "Naked Lunch", continues to fascinate readers. Now the artist's long-time friend, writer Victor Bockris, records for all objective time the choice private and public, hallucinatory and prescient, utterances of Burroughs and his famous circle. 60 photos.

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Macmillan

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0312147678

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9780312147679

Maldito desde la cuna

La vida corta e infeliz de William S. Burroughs Jr.

By: William S. Burroughs Jr.

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Maldito desde la cuna

La vida corta e infeliz de William S. Burroughs Jr.

By: William S. Burroughs Jr.

Nacido en 1947, hijo del escrito William S. Burroughs y su compañera Joan Vollmer, William S. Burroughs Jr. (más conocido como Billy Jr.) se describiría más tarde a sí mismo frente a su padre «tu hijo maldito-desde-la-cuna». Maldito desde la cuna es un testimonio sobre la dificultad de vivir en la estela turbulenta de un padre famoso y sus no menos célebres y problemáticos amigos, al mismo tiempo que un relato lúcido y devastador de una vida que se va por el sumidero. Criado por sus abuelos paternos en Palm Beach después de que su padre matase accidentalmente a su madre de un disparo, Billy, recién entrado en la adolescencia, vio como su padre se hacía mundialmente famoso tras la publicación de El almuerzo desnudo. La breve vida de Billy Jr. pivotó siempre entre sus desesperados intentos de llamar la atención de su padre, los lamentos por la muerte de su madre, el alcoholismo, la drogadicción, las clínicas de desintoxicación, la cárcel, los hospitales y sus brillantes empeños literarios (las novelas Kentucky Jam y Speed). Maldito desde la cuna compilado por el escritor David Ohle a partir del material inédito de la que estaba llamada a ser la tercera llamada de Billy ( Prakriti Junction), las anotaciones de sus últimos diarios, poemas, cartas y conversaciones con las personas que le conocieron (su padre, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, etc.), es la divertida, trágica, furiosa e impresionante declaración final de William S. Burroughs Jr.; una de las últimas víctimas de la Generación Beat. «No suelo verme al borde de las lágrimas al leer una biografía literaria, pero en el caso de William Burroughs Jr. solo alguien con el corazón de piedra podría no sentir la angustia de este pobre hombre [...] Lo que realmente te parte el corazón en esta historia es el innegable talento que tenía Billy para escribir.» Tony O'neill, The Guardian

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Dirty Works

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8419288004

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9788419288004

The Soft Machine

By: William S. Burroughs

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The Soft Machine

By: William S. Burroughs

In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will take us even further into the dark recesses of his imagination, a region where nothing is sacred, nothing taboo. Continuing his ferocious verbal assault on hatred, hype, poverty, war, bureaucracy, and addiction in all its forms, Burroughs gives us a surreal space odyssey through the wounded galaxies in a book only he could create.

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Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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0802197213

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9780802197214

Interzone

By: William S. Burroughs

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Interzone

By: William S. Burroughs

In 1954 William Burroughs settled in Tangiers, finding a sanctuary of sorts in its shadowy streets, blind alleys, and lowlife decadence. It was this city that served as a catalyst for Burroughs as a writer, the backdrop for one of the most radical transformations of style in literary history. Burroughs's life during this period is limned in a startling collection of short stories, autobiographical sketches, letters, and diary entries, all of which showcase his trademark mordant humor, while delineating the addictions to drugs and sex that are the central metaphors of his work. But it is the extraordinary "WORD," a long, sexually wild and deliberately offensive tirade, that blends confession, routine, and fantasy and marks the true turning point of Burroughs as a writer-the breakthrough of his own characteristic voice that will find its full realization in Naked Lunch. James Grauerholz's incisive introduction sets the scene for this series of pieces, guiding the reader through Burroughs's literary evolution from the precise, laconic, and deadpan writer of Junky and Queer to the radical, uncompromising seer of Naked Lunch. Interzone is an indispensable addition to the canon of his works.

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217

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Penguin

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0140094512

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9780140094510

My Education

A Book of Dreams

By: William S. Burroughs

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My Education

A Book of Dreams

By: William S. Burroughs

My Education is William S. Burroughs's final collection, first published two years before his death in 1997. It is a book of dreams, written over several decades and as personal and close to a memoir as we will see. The dreams cover themes from the mundane and ordinary -- conversations with his friends Allen Ginsberg or Ian Sommerville, feeding his cats, procuring drugs or sex -- to the erotic, bizarre, and visionary. Always a rich source of imagery in Burroughs's own fiction, in this book, dreams become a direct and powerful force in themselves. "Mr. Burroughs has lost none of his irreverence or wit, but in recent years he has acquired an elegant, elegiac tone." – The New York Times

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Penguin

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0140094547

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9780140094541

Last Words

The Final Journals of William Burroughs

By: William S. Burroughs,James Grauerholz

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Last Words

The Final Journals of William Burroughs

By: William S. Burroughs,James Grauerholz

William Burroughs died in August 1997, after a lifetime of notoriety. In his final years, he was writing only in his journals. The last nine months of his diaries are here, in Last Words, and they form a complex, rarely seen, personal portrait of Burroughs at the end of his life, coming to terms with aging and death.

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HarperCollins

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0002261138

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9780002261135

Ports of Entry

William S. Burroughs and the Arts

By: Robert A. Sobieszek,Los Angeles County Museum of Art,William S. Burroughs

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Ports of Entry

William S. Burroughs and the Arts

By: Robert A. Sobieszek,Los Angeles County Museum of Art,William S. Burroughs

Robert Sobieszek analyses William S. Burroughs contribution to the world of the visual arts, wherein his visions, conjured in his writings of a fragmented world, are parallelled in cut-up and fold-in collages.

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Small PressDistribution

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0500974357

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9780500974353

Don't Hide the Madness

William S. Burroughs in Conversation with Allen Ginsberg

By: William S. Burroughs,Allen Ginsberg

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Don't Hide the Madness

William S. Burroughs in Conversation with Allen Ginsberg

By: William S. Burroughs,Allen Ginsberg

An intense, compelling conversation between legendary Beat icons William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, featuring photos by Ginsberg, and details of Burroughs' shamanic exorcism of the demon that led him to shoot his wife and drove his work as a writer.

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364

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Mitten Press

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1941110703

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9781941110706

William S. Burroughs' "The Revised Boy Scout Manual"

An Electronic Revolution

By: William S. Burroughs

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William S. Burroughs' "The Revised Boy Scout Manual"

An Electronic Revolution

By: William S. Burroughs

The definitive version of William Burroughs' political satire masterpiece, published for the first time in its entirety.

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117

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0814254896

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9780814254899

Junky

The Definitive Text of "Junk"

By: William S. Burroughs

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Junky

The Definitive Text of "Junk"

By: William S. Burroughs

Imprint date taken from page 4 of cover.

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241

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Grove Press

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0802120423

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9780802120427

The Western Lands

By: William S. Burroughs

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The Western Lands

By: William S. Burroughs

A fascinating mix of autobiographical episodes and extraordinary Egyptian theology, Burroughs's final novel is poignant and melancholic. Blending war films and pornography, and referencing Kafka and Mailer, The Western Lands confirms his status as one of America's greatest writers. The final novel of the trilogy containing Cities of the Red Night and The Place of Dead Roads, this is a profound meditation on morality, loneliness, life and death.

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Penguin Modern Classics

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0141189940

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9780141189949

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