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William S. Burroughs

Calder Publications Ltd, 1985

I disagree with the canned review I encountered.
I am not sure how this is "representative of Burroughs work" if that is the way the glib untruths of the canned review were couched. Most of the writing in this book is Burroughs using a more direct voice, reminiscent of the style he used for "Junky" and which I believe he referred to as "factualism". Most of the attempts in this book don't engage in the edgy "cut-up" style of a lot of ...

Almoco Nu
William S Burroughs

Circulo Do Livro, 1986

Written in Portugeuse

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac

Grove Press, 2008

More than sixty years ago, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac sat down inNew York City to write a novel about the summer of 1944, when one of their friends killed another in a moment of brutal and tragic bloodshed. The two authors were then at the dawn of their careers, having yet to write anything of note. Alternating chapters and narrators, Burroughs and Kerouac pieced together a hard-boiled tale of bohemian New York during World War II, ...