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    Junky

    William S. Burroughs

    A novel that offers an account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses.

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    Queer: 25th Anniversary Edition

    William S. Burroughs

    Set in Mexico City during the early fifties, this title follows William Lee’s hopeless pursuit of desire from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene.

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    Conversations with William S. Burroughs

    Although a rather shy, private man, William Burroughs gave a good many interviews during his lifetime, some in prominent publications, others in obscure forums. The interviews collected here provide an…

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    Understanding William S. Burroughs

    Gerald Alva Miller Jr.

    Through critical readings, Gerald Alva Miller, Jr. examines the life of William S. Burroughs and the evolution of his various radical styles not just in writing but also in audio…

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    Magical Universe of William S Burroughs

    Matthew Levi Stevens

    The Magical Universe of William S. Burroughs is the first ever in-depth consideration of the significance of Magic and the Occult in the Life & Work of the writer and…

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    Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

    William S. Burroughs

    Presents a surreal novel. It is based on orgiastic wasteland of drugs, depravity, political plots, paranoia, sadistic medical experiments and endless, gnawing addiction. It also features authors notes on the…

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    Queer

    William S Burroughs

    A haunting tale of possession and exorcism, now reissued on the seventieth anniversary of the year of its writing, the definitive text of William S. Burroughs’s early, long-unpublished novel, now…

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    The Place of Dead Roads

    William S. Burroughs

    A surreal fable that features a cast of notorious characters: The Crying Gun, who breaks into tears at the sight of his opponent; The Priest, who goes into gunfights giving…

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    Cities of the Red Night

    William S. Burroughs

    Intends to satirize modern society in a poetic story of sex, drugs, disease and adventure.

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    The Finger

    William S. Burroughs

    Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry

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    Junky

    William S. Burroughs

    Junky is a dark, powerful and mesmerizing account of one man’s challenge to turn self-destruction into art.

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    Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

    William S. Burroughs

    Presents a surreal novel. It is based on orgiastic wasteland of drugs, depravity, political plots, paranoia, sadistic medical experiments and endless, gnawing addiction. It also features authors notes on the…

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    Playback: The Magic of William S. Burroughs

    The elusive wild boys, the magical Zimbu, the embattled Johnsons… They are all here in this revised and expanded reincarnation of Ashe Journal #2.3. In these pages magicians, poets, and…

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    The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs

    Daniel Odier,William S. Burroughs

    A collection of interviews with Daniel Odier.

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    William S. Burroughs Vs. The Qur'an

    Michael Muhammad Knight

    When Michael Muhammad Knight sets out to write the definitive biography of his Anarcho-Sufi hero and mentor, writer Peter Lamborn Wilson (aka Hakim Bey), he makes a startling discovery that…

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    The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs

    William S. Burroughs

    Presents the author’s incisive, paranoiac, maddened and maddening worldview in interviews interspersed with stories and other writing.

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    The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead

    William S. Burroughs

    A novel that sees wild boys engage in vigorous, ritualistic sex and drug taking, as well as pranksterish guerrilla warfare and open combat with a confused and outmatched army.

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    Burroughs Unbound: William S. Burroughs and the Performance of Writing

    In addition to contributing significantly to the growing field of Burroughs scholarship, Burroughs Unbound also directly engages with the growing fields of textual studies, archival research, and genetic criticism, asking…

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    Burroughs Unbound: William S. Burroughs and the Performance of Writing

    In addition to contributing significantly to the growing field of Burroughs scholarship, Burroughs Unbound also directly engages with the growing fields of textual studies, archival research, and genetic criticism, asking…

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    The Stray Bullet: William S. Burroughs in Mexico

    Jorge Garcia-Robles

    William Burroughs arrived in Mexico City in 1949, having slipped out of New Orleans while awaiting trial on drug and weapons charges that would almost certainly have resulted in a…

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    William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century

    Ultimately, the collection situates Burroughs as a central artist and thinker of his time and considers his insights on political and social problems that have become even more dire in…

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    Scientologist!: William S. Burroughs and the ‘weird Cult

    David S. Wills

    Scientology is largely overlooked in major texts about the life and work of William S. Burroughs, author of some of the most notorious literature of the 20th century. Now, for…

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    Interzone

    William S. Burroughs

    Portrays the development of Burroughs’ mature writing style by presenting a selection of pieces from the mid-1950s. This book tells how his outrageous tone of voice represents the exorcism of…

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    The Soft Machine: The Restored Text

    William S. Burroughs

    Draws the reader into an unmappable textual space, where nothing is true and everything is permitted, to make a total assault on the colonising powers of planet earth that have…

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    Retaking the Universe: William S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization

    Cutting-edge analysis on the life and works of William S. Burroughs covering both his fiction and journals.

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    Fever Spores: The Queer Reclamation of William S. Burroughs

    Inexplicably, William S. Burroughs has not been embraced by the LGBTQI community as one of our own, even though his queerness was central to his life and work. Fever Spores…

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    Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs

    Ted Morgan

    Almost indecently readable … captures [Burroughs’s] destructive energy, his ferocious pessimism, and the renegade brilliance of his style. -Vogue

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    William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock ‘n’ Roll

    Casey Rae

    William Burroughs’ life and art, situated in the context of the most radical and influential rock n roll stars of the late twentieth century

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    Retaking the Universe: William S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization

    Cutting-edge analysis on the life and works of William S. Burroughs covering both his fiction and journals.

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    William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock ‘n’ Roll

    Casey Rae

    The little-known history of William S. Burroughs’s impact on some of the biggest names in music, from the Beatles to Bowie, and his role as a secret architect of the…

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    William S. Burroughs, Throbbing Gristle, Brion Gysin

    Interviews and writings with and by W.S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and members of Throbbing Gristle. Heavily illustrated and with reference lists from each interviewee: book lists, audio and other recommendations.

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    Fever Spores: The Queer Reclamation of William S. Burroughs

    Brian Alessandro,Tom Cardamone

    Inexplicably, William S. Burroughs has not been embraced by the LGBTQI community as one of our own, even though his queerness was central to his life and work. Fever Spores…

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    The Letters of William S. Burroughs: Volume I: 1945-1959

    William S. Burroughs

    This volume of correspondence vividly documents the personal and cultural history through which Burroughs developed, revealing clues to illuminate his life and keys to open up his text. Sheds light…

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    The Burroughs File

    William S. Burroughs

    Vintage William S. Burroughs-malefic, mordant, hilarious-with pages from the legendary cut-up scrapbooks.

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    Don’t Hide the Madness: William S. Burroughs in Conversation with Allen Ginsberg

    William S. Burroughs

    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…

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    The Beat Generation and Counterculture: Paul Bowles, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac

    Raj Chandarlapaty,Paul Bowles,William S Burroughs,Jack Kerouac, 192 192 192

    The Beat Generation and Counterculture examines three authors associated with the Beat Generation - Paul Bowles, William S. Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac - and the relevance of their attempt to…

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    The Cat Inside

    William S. Burroughs

    Burroughs is best known for the wild, phantasmagoric satire of Naked Lunch, but he has another side. America’s leading literary outlaw writes with unexpected tenderness and signature intensity about his…

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    Exterminator!

    William S. Burroughs

    A man, dispirited by ageing, endeavours to steal a younger man’s face; a doctor yearns for a virus that might eliminate his discomfort by turning everyone else into doubles of…

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    The Adding Machine

    William S Burroughs

    Sheer pleasure… . Wonderfully entertaining.–Chicago Sun-Times Acclaimed by Norman Mailer more than twenty years ago as possibly the only American writer of genius, William S. Burroughs has produced a body…

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    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.

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    Nothing Here Now But The Recor

    William S Burroughs

    In 1980, Genesis P-Orridge and Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson of (then-)Throbbing Gristle travelled to New York City to meet up at the fortified apartment, known as The Bunker, of famed beat…

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    Nothing Here Now But The Recordings

    William S Burroughs

    In 1980, Genesis P-Orridge and Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson of (then-)Throbbing Gristle travelled to New York City to meet up at the fortified apartment, known as The Bunker, of famed beat…

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    My Education: A Book of Dreams

    William S. Burroughs

    In his latest book, Burroughs pushes into new territory, once again committing the unspeakable crime of questioning the reality structure. Dreams, always a rich source of imagery in Burroughs’ works…

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    The Wild Boys

    William S. Burroughs

    The Wild Boys is a futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to freedom battles the organized armies of repressive police states. Making full…

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    Junky: The Definitive Text of Junk

    William S Burroughs

    Imprint date taken from page 4 of cover.

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    The Cat Inside

    William S. Burroughs

    Both heartwarming and meditative, The Cat Inside explores not only the personal relationship between Burroughs and cats, but the deeper relationship of cats with mankind, which Burroughs traces back to…

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    Cities of the Red Night

    William S Burroughs

    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.

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    Dead Fingers Talk

    William S. Burroughs

    This newly edited edition of Dead Fingers Talk, based on the restored text of the novel, will delight all Burroughs fans and lovers of experimental literature, and offer a new…

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