The Road to Interzone
The Road to Interzone

Author: Michael Stevens

Publisher:

Published: 2009-09

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780615302652

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From the Introduction: "In 2000, I set out to catalogue every published literary reference (no allusions) Burroughs had made throughout his career. The document you hold in your hands is the result. The Road to Interzone is an annotated checklist of the reading of William S. Burroughs. It stands as a testament of an obsession and more importantly, the raw material for an investigation into what John Livingston Lowes called, %u2018the shaping spirit of the imagination,%u2019 the source materials of what was to become Burroughs%u2019 literary legacy and the skeleton for an interpretation of the operational processes of influence and the function of artistic inspiration."

My Education
My Education

Author: William S. Burroughs

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2012-09-27

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 0141975725

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My Education is Burroughs's last novel, first published two years before his death in 1997. It is a book of dreams, collected over several decades and as close to a memoir as we will see. The dreams cover themes from the mundane and ordinary - conversations with his friends Allen Ginsberg or Ian Sommerville, feeding his cats, procuring drugs or sex - to the erotic, bizarre and visionary. Always a rich source of imagery in Burroughs's own fiction, in this book dreams become a direct and powerful force in themselves.

The Bladerunner
The Bladerunner

Author: Alan E Nourse

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-04-12

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1440566933

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Billy Gimp was a bladerunner . . . one of the shadowy procurers of illegal medical supplies for the rapidly expanding, nightmare world of the medical black market. Doc was a skilled surgeon at a government-operated hospital by day . . . and an underground physician by night, providing health care for the multitudes who could not - or would not - qualify for legal medical assistance. Trapped by Health Control Police, Billy Gimp knew he had to warn Doc that they were closing in on him. But something even more deadly than the law had already mad its first move . . . a new plague that Health Control could not handle!

Interzone
Interzone

Author: William S. Burroughs

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1990-02-01

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 0140094512

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In 1954 William Burroughs settled in Tangiers, finding a sanctuary of sorts in its shadowy streets, blind alleys, and lowlife decadence. It was this city that served as a catalyst for Burroughs as a writer, the backdrop for one of the most radical transformations of style in literary history. Burroughs's life during this period is limned in a startling collection of short stories, autobiographical sketches, letters, and diary entries, all of which showcase his trademark mordant humor, while delineating the addictions to drugs and sex that are the central metaphors of his work. But it is the extraordinary "WORD," a long, sexually wild and deliberately offensive tirade, that blends confession, routine, and fantasy and marks the true turning point of Burroughs as a writer-the breakthrough of his own characteristic voice that will find its full realization in Naked Lunch. James Grauerholz's incisive introduction sets the scene for this series of pieces, guiding the reader through Burroughs's literary evolution from the precise, laconic, and deadpan writer of Junky and Queer to the radical, uncompromising seer of Naked Lunch. Interzone is an indispensable addition to the canon of his works.

The Road to Wigan Pier
The Road to Wigan Pier

Author: George Orwell

Publisher: Modernista

Published: 2024-04-26

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9180948650

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George Orwell provides a vivid and unflinching portrayal of working-class life in Northern England during the 1930s. Through his own experiences and meticulous investigative reporting, Orwell exposes the harsh living conditions, poverty, and social injustices faced by coal miners and other industrial workers in the region. He documents their struggles with unemployment, poor housing, and inadequate healthcare, as well as the pervasive sense of hopelessness and despair that permeates their lives. In the second half of the The Road to Wigan Pier Orwell delves into the complexities of political ideology, as he grapples with the shortcomings of both socialism and capitalism in addressing the needs of the working class. GEORGE ORWELL was born in India in 1903 and passed away in London in 1950. As a journalist, critic, and author, he was a sharp commentator on his era and its political conditions and consequences.

Blended Zones
Blended Zones

Author: Samuel Brown

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-07-16

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1105970205

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A black American ends up in the zone, a strange place where time and space interlace and reality is determined by the substance being used by the viewer of said reality. Join Sam as he enters a world of extreme sex, violence and drug abuse. A one way ticket to a hell of no return. A twisted trip to the ultimate other side of the tracks.

William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll
William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll

Author: Casey Rae

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2021-10-05

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1477322590

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William S. Burroughs's fiction and essays are legendary, but his influence on music's counterculture has been less well documented—until now. Examining how one of America's most controversial literary figures altered the destinies of many notable and varied musicians, William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll reveals the transformations in music history that can be traced to Burroughs. A heroin addict and a gay man, Burroughs rose to notoriety outside the conventional literary world; his masterpiece, Naked Lunch, was banned on the grounds of obscenity, but its nonlinear structure was just as daring as its content. Casey Rae brings to life Burroughs's parallel rise to fame among daring musicians of the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, when it became a rite of passage to hang out with the author or to experiment with his cut-up techniques for producing revolutionary lyrics (as the Beatles and Radiohead did). Whether they tell of him exploring the occult with David Bowie, providing Lou Reed with gritty depictions of street life, or counseling Patti Smith about coping with fame, the stories of Burroughs's backstage impact will transform the way you see America's cultural revolution—and the way you hear its music.

Don't Hide the Madness
Don't Hide the Madness

Author: William S. Burroughs

Publisher: Mitten Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9781941110706

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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 to shoot his wife and drove his work as a writer.

Blade Runner
Blade Runner

Author: William S. Burroughs

Publisher:

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13:

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In this futuristic screenplay vision of a strife-and-disease-plagued America in 1999, Burroughs finds the cure for a decaying civilization in the medicine practiced by underground physicians and surgeons. These heroic healers, in turn, are aided by 'blade runners, ' teenagers who smuggle banned surgical instruments past the watchful eyes of fascistic police. The novel-cum-screenplay follows one of these runners during the course of a race riot and the transfer of instruments between embattled doctors. Above the drama in the streets of New York is a world 'taken over by hang-glider and autogyro gangs, mountaineers and steeplejacks. A sky boy steps off his penthouse into a parachute on guide wires that drop him to a street-level landing ... Meanwhile, released animals and reptiles from the zoo and freed fish from the aquarium have control of the rovers and subways. The prose flashes with Burrough's own brand of outrageousness and fantasy.