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9 reviews
William S. Burroughs

Grove Press, 1994

thirty-six years old and still ahead of its time
Oh, this book is superb; thrilling. Burroughs' critique of media/information culture has never been more relevant (he even predicts, in 1964, the emergence of something that sounds very much like the Web - "more and more images in less space pounded down under the sex acts and torture ever took place anywhere"). Great chunks of the book function practically as a Machiavellian instruction ...

Burroughs: Letters

1 review
William S. Burroughs

Viking Penguin Inc, 2002

pure burroughs
Never mind the slew of literary garble about his genius, nor the sickening drivel of bickering fools digging for gossip: now good'ole bill can be read on his own, as he was when these letters were first written, obviously. This might just be the best collection yet of his letters...

The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs

9 reviews
Daniel Odier, William S. Burroughs

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1989

Disquietingly prescient and funny
"The Job" is a fantastic introduction to the obsessions and maverick idealism that characterize Burroughs' fiction. This is not a straight question-and-answer session; Burroughs includes liberal samples of text (his own as well as others') to illustrate his ideas. The final product is an effective, surreal manifesto urging all of us to break out of our private tunnel realities and confront social ...

Helnwein (English and German Edition)

2 reviews
Klaus Honnef, Gottfried Helnwein, ...

Konemann, 1999

Magnific!!!
The work of Helnwein is simply one of the best i've ever seen!! The subject, the form, the color, the talent, everything makes for Helnwein to be one of the best artists in recent years, the book depicts well his work with superb photos, good reviews, a concise text not at all snobish. A great buy, good value for money!!!

Speed

4 reviews
William S. Burroughs

Overlook Hardcover, 1984

fine book, damn' fine book
_Speed_ was William S. Burrough's Jr.'s (not to be confused with his father, the "real" WSB) first novel. It's hard not to compare it to _The Basketball Diaries_ on the basis of some trivial and obvious similarities (_Speed_ is about the author's adolescent experiences as a methedrine addict in NYC) but he's going somewhere very different from where Carroll was going. His vision is colder and ...

The Herbert Huncke Reader

10 reviews
Herbert Huncke

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1998

Everyone should take notice
There are few authors I feel everyone should read but no matter who you are Herbert Huncke should be read. He is one of the best storytellers/writers I have had the privilege of reading. His stories of sex, streets, drugs, life and friends bring a humanity to what may be considered by many obscure, degenerate, or just plain disgusting, but Huncke?s stories I believe are non of these. They are ...

Cows Are Freaky When They Look at You: An Oral History of the Kaw Valley Hemp Pickers

4 reviews

Watermark Press, 1991

a wonderful collection anecdotes, remembrances, etc...
What was it like in the sixties? Have you ever wondered this? Even if you lived through the sixties. A collection of stories, some sad, some weird, some gross, and some crazy. This book will take you back. The stories are anywhere from a few lines long to a few pages. A truly amazing book, that not only will you enjoy, but will force on your friends to enjoy

Ali's Smile / Naked Scientology

2 reviews
William S. Burroughs

Left Bank Books, 1985

Trash
Don't waste your time! Just a collage of random thoughts that might have have been applicable in the 70s.

Cursed from Birth: The Short, Unhappy Life of William S. Burroughs, Jr.

6 reviews
William S. Burroughs Jr.

Soft Skull Press, 2006

Best book yet on Bill Burroughs, Jr.
Billy was a friend of mine.I knew him at Green Valley School in Orange City, Fla. in 1972 and afterwards until his death in 1981. I think this book tells his story the way he would like. Literary Outlaw is the other good bio of Bill Burroughs, Sr. in which Billy's life is well told. Read both of these books and you will know the Burroughs. The old man was a genius and a great writer but a lousy ...

Electronic revolution

1 review
William S Burroughs

Expanded Media Editions, 1976

buy this book
I thought this book was really cool. All sorts of ways to destroy lives and buisnesses. cause car crashes and make the cops drive by and cause riots with only a tape recorder (or a few)and a camera. Learn how to cause viruses in humans by recording their voice cutting it up and spicing it with other words and sounds. I really found it entertaining. I did get a little bum when Hubbard's name ...

First Thought Best Thought

1 review
Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, ...

Sounds True, Incorporated, 2004

An Amazing WEALTH of Writing Advice
I've been having an ongoing flirtation with the "Beat Generation" this year, having read Diane Di Prima, Anne Waldman, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, among others. When I stumbled across this set of audio CD's, I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. To hear these giants of their generation reading their own works was a dream come true. The title "First Thought, Best ...

Ninth November Night

1 review
Gottfried Helnwein, William S. Burroughs, ...

Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles, 2003

Helnwein confronts the Holocaust
On the night of November 9th, 1938, the Nazis began a coordinated attack on German Jews. By sunrise, 91 Jews had been murdered in the streets, 30,000 more had been arrested and were on their way to concentration camps, and over 200 synagogues lay in ruins. Fifty years later, in September of 1988, Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein presented the installation "Ninth November Night" outside of ...

Cities of the Red Night

28 reviews
William S. Burroughs

Henry Holt & Company, 1995

Untramelled Genius
This is the most accessible William Burroughs novel ever written. It has more structure, cohesion and plot than most of his other works, so if you are a first time Burroughs reader this is the one to go for...Burroughs is a genius and a prophet of 20th Century literature. His writing pushes the boundaries of imagination,sexuality, social interaction and time. He is an alien soul injected into the ...

Queer

20 reviews
William S. Burroughs

Viking Adult, 1985

tragedy of a drifter
A book of unreciprocated feelings, and longings amplified by withdrawel and junk sickness. This is a much more intimate and personal look into the life of William Burroughs than his other stuff. It takes place after he accidentally killed his wife, and he is sobering up and facing all of the demons and guilt previously dulled by the drugs. This book was banned for a long time, the homosexual ...

You Can't Win

38 reviews
Jack Black

Nabat Books, 2001

BEWARE: DON'T BUY THE INCOMPLETE PIRATED VERSION OF THIS BOOK BY BNPUBLISHING.
This edition of You Can't Win is the edition I did in 2001 for NABAT Books/AK Press and STILL IN PRINT. Bnpublishing ripped out the introduction by William Burroughs, the article from Harper's Magazine that Jack Black wrote about crime and prisons that I added, and my afterword, and republished it as their book. They didn't change the layout, typeface or anything else so for example their ...

Man at Leisure (Oneworld Classics)

1 review
Alexander Trocchi

Oneworld Classics, 2009

Trocchi's only work of poems is incredible !!!!!
Trocchi published precious little in his brilliant career, and this slim volume is the only work of poems; a collection from various years of work. Their is little I can say that will do this great, and little known(even by Trocchi fans)work justice, except that if you love Trocchi's prose you will be more than thrilled with what happens betwixt the covers here ! His wit, and visionary ...

Yonqui (Spanish Edition)

1 review
William S. Burroughs

Anagrama, 1998

Walk in pain of an addict
Perfect tale of the life of a modern day yonqui, what he thinks and how he manages to get his everyday fix, you get so involved with the caracter that you feel his internal pain, and you also find how stupid the mind of a Yonqui works and how small are their goals.. the pechote

Naked Lunch

1 review
William S Burroughs

CASTLE BOOKS, 1960

excellent book
this book is dense with insane intensity, a crazy read that will take you on a constantly looping rollercoaster, a real adrenaline rush.

Junky

95 reviews
William S. Burroughs

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1977

Clean, Clear, Spare, Remarkably Descriptive
The writing is clean, spare and remarkably descriptive. Burroughs treats this subject matter in a very matter of fact manner. He tells of acquiring and maintaining his habit without a trace of the illicit titilation found in most of the addiction/recovery genre.

New York Inside Out

1 review

Skyline Press, 1984

See it from the sidewalk
I bought this years ago and I can remember first flicking through it and thinking it was somehow different to other photo books of seventies and eighties. The subject matter was common enough: big city street scenes. Bill Klein's brilliant 'Life is Good and Good For You in New York' sort of laid the groundwork, in 1956, to inspire others (even down to off-shoots of the genre like Lee Boltin's ...

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