“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 KerouacCarefully 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

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History & Criticism

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<p>Paperback. Pub Date :2012-05-03 Pages: 208 Language: English Publisher: Penguin PressClassics Yasha the magician - sword swallower. fire eater. acrobat and master of escape - is famed for his extraordinary Houdini-like skills Half Jewish. half. Gentile. a free thinker who slips easily between worlds. Yasha has an observant wife. a loyal assistant who travels with him and a woman in every town. Now. though. his exploits are catching up with him. and he is tempted to make one final escape -. from his marriage. his homeland and the last tendrils of his fathers religion Set in Warsaw and the shtetls of the 1870s. Isaac Bashevis Singers second novel is a haunting psychological portrait of a mans flight from love.Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature</p>

The Magician of Lublin

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Literary

Love stories, with a twist, by Russia’s preeminent contemporary fiction writer—the author of the prizewinning memoir about growing up in Stalinist Russia, The Girl from the Metropol Hotel   By turns sly and sweet, burlesque and heartbreaking, these realist fables of women looking for love are the stories that Ludmilla Petrushevskaya—who has been compared to Chekhov, Tolstoy, Beckett, Poe, Angela Carter, and even Stephen King—is best known for in Russia.   Here are attempts at human connection, both depraved and sublime, by people across the life span: one-night stands in communal apartments, poignantly awkward couplings, office trysts, schoolgirl crushes, elopements, tentative courtships, and rampant infidelity, shot through with lurid violence, romantic illusion, and surprising tenderness. With the satirical eye of Cindy Sherman, Petrushevskaya blends macabre spectacle with transformative moments of grace and shows just why she is Russia’s preeminent contemporary fiction writer.

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