Every place has a spirit: it may be good, it may be bad, it can be restful as eternity or it can be jarring and hideous as a vicious brawl.

Strange Amazing and Mysterious Places

BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S.

Marshall, Richard

Travel

Collins Pub San Francisco

An indispensable selection of Burroughs' work. 'Word Virus' brings together selections of Burroughs' most important and challenging work, beginning with his very early work (including a chapter from a novel in collaboration with Jack Kerouac) and following his trajectory through 'The Cat Inside'. This book has been edited to serve as a tool for the scholar and with commentary for the general reader. Important biographical information is included which provides key links to understanding Burroughs' work within the context of his life. Burroughs managed to be a visionary amongst writers: he imagined the Internet decades before its appearance and peered into the future of other technologies; he kept pace with world affairs and cultural trends; and, with each of his books, he introduced new possibilities to the form. When he died in 1997, the world of letters lost its most elegant insider.

Word virus: the William Burroughs reader

Flamingo

Naked Lunch - The Restored Text

Literature & Fiction

Edited by Grauerholz, James and Miles, Barry

Classics

GROVE PRESS

An opium addict is lost in the jungle; young men wage war against an empire of mutants; a handsome young pirate faces his execution; and, the world's population is infected with a radioactive epidemic. These stories are woven together in a single tale of mayhem and chaos. In the first novel of the trilogy continued in "The Place of Dead Roads" and "The Western Lands", William Burroughs sharply satirizes modern society in a poetic and shocking story of sex, drugs, disease and adventure.

Cities of the Red Night

Contemporary

Holt; Rinehart; Winston

Several familiar Burroughs characters--Dr. Benway, Clem Snide, the Wild Boys--and a number of newly conceived characters are enmeshed in a tale centering on the revolutionary intrigues of Captain Mission, an eighteenth-century pirate

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

FIRST OWL BOOK EDITION.1982 Holt Rinehart and Winston trade paperback, William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch). While young men wage war against an evil empire of zealous mutants, the population of this modern inferno is afflicted with the epidemic of a radioactive virus.

Literary

Henry Holt Company

The Place of Dead Roads

William Seward Hall, who writes westerns under the name of Kim Carsons--a man with a mission to reorganize Earth into a more meaningful world--takes part in a shoot-out in the Boulder, Colorado, cemetery

Genre Fiction

Henry Holt Co.

“Burroughs’s voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American.” —Joan Didion
“Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.” —Jack Kerouac
Carefully edited from more than 1000 of his personal correspondences, Rub Out the Words is a collection of 300 of the best letters of Naked Lunch author William S. Burroughs, written between 1959 and 1974. A truly remarkable compendium, it offers an eye-opening and insightful look into the artistic process and complex personal life of the legendary literary outlaw in the post-Beat era—providing a new understanding and appreciation of an author who stood alongside Paul Bowles and Charles Bukowski as one of the most creative and rebellious American artists of the 20th century.

Rub Out the Words: The Letters of William S. Burroughs 1959-1974

Biographies & Memoirs

Ecco

Rub Out the Words LP: The Letters of William S. Burroughs 1959-1974

HarperLuxe

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