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

The journal of the last months of William Burroughs' life. 20 November 1996: 'Well, it's time for my Ovaltine and a long good night.' Burroughs died in 1997, after a lifetime of notoriety. The granddaddy of the Beats, druggy, dangerous and bleak, author of thirteen controversial, shocking novels. 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 ageing and death. Although well into his eighties, the man we see is nevertheless the same old Burroughs, still riling against the Establishment, still contemptuous of the state of the human race, still shocking, bleak and very funny. The diaries are full of anecdotes and memories, entries on the joys of housekeeping, dealing with doctors, shooting a video with U2, musings on his beloved cats, drug-taking and government cover-ups. These journals contain some of the most brutally personal prose Burroughs has ever written. The deaths of his friends, Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary, provide a window onto the preparations he was making for his own death -- a quest for absolution marked by a profound sense of guilt and loss.

Last Words

Literature & Fiction

Classics

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Fourth Estate Paperbacks

Naked Lunch - The Restored Text

Edited by Grauerholz, James and Miles, Barry

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 AND 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

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.

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Strange Amazing and Mysterious Places

Word virus: the William Burroughs reader

Last Words

Last Words

Naked Lunch - The Restored Text

Cities of the Red Night

Cities of the Red Night

Cities of the Red Night

The Place of Dead Roads

The Place of Dead Roads