| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xxxi, 532 pages ; 24 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) |
| Physical Medium |
4 3/4 in. |
| Description |
1.4 m/s |
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digital recording |
| Note |
Collected in one volume the essential writings of America's foremost literary innovator. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 531-532). |
| Summary |
An anthology by a major literary figure of this century. It includes an account of his brief career as a cockroach exterminator and an essay in homage to Jack Kerouac. |
| Contents |
The name is Burroughs. Name is Burroughs / James Grauerholz -- from The adding machine. Name is Burroughs (excerpt) -- Personal magnetism -- Twilight's last gleamings / with Kells Elvins -- And the hippos were boiled in their tanks (excerpt) / with Jack Kerouac. |
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A hard-boiled reporter. A hard-boiled reporter / James Grauerholz -- from Junky. Prologue ; Selections -- from Queer. Selections ; Epilogue : Mexico City return (excerpts) ; Introduction (excerpts) -- Yagé letters. Selections ; Roosevelt after inauguration. |
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Interzone. Interzone / James Grauerholz -- from Interzone (1988 anthology). International zone ; Lee's journals (excerpts) ; Spare ass Annie ; Ginsberg notes (excerpts) ; WORD (excerpts) -- from Naked lunch. I can feel the heat closing in ; Black meat ; Hospital (excerpts) ; Market (excerpts) ; Islam, Inc. (excerpts) ; Ordinary men and women (excerpt: The talking asshole) ; Atrophied preface ; Quick--. |
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The cut-ups. Cut-ups / James Grauerholz -- from The soft machine. Dead on arrival ; Case of the celluloid Kali ; Mayan caper ; Where you belong ; Uranian Willy -- from The ticket that exploded. See the action, B.J.? ; Do you love me? ; Operation rewrite ; Call the old doctor twice? ; Invisible generation -- from Nova express. Last words ; Prisoners, come out ; Pry yourself loose and listen ; So pack your ermines ; Shift coordinate points ; Coordinate points ; Short count ; Twilight's last gleaming ; Pay color ; Pay off the marks? ; Clom Fliday. |
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Inspector Lee : nova heat. Inspector Lee : nova heat / James Grauerholz -- from The Burroughs file. Ancient face gone out ; Beginning is also the end ; Who is the third that walks beside you ; Last post danger ahead ; Last awning flaps on the pier ; St. Louis return -- from The third mind / with Brion Gysin. Exterminator ; Future of the novel ; Notes on these pages ; Technical deposition of the virus power ; In present time -- from The job. American non-dream ; Institute of Advanced Sexual Studies : academy bulletin no. 18 ; Electronic revolution ; Control -- from The adding machine. It is necessary to travel-- ; Remembering Jack Kerouac -- from The Burroughs file. Bay of Pigs -- from Roosevelt after inauguration and other atrocities. When did I stop wanting to be President? ; Roosevelt after inauguration : a new introduction -- from The adding machine. A word to the wise guy ; Limits of control ; Les voleurs ; Immortality ; Johnson family (excerpts). |
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Queer utopia. Queer utopia / James Grauerholz -- from The wild boys. And bury the bread deep in a sty ; Penny arcade peep show ; Mother and I would like to know ; Wild boys smile -- from Exterminator!. Exterminator! ; Discipline of DE ; What Washington? What orders? ; From here to eternity ; Seeing red ; "Priest" they called him ; Cold lost marbles. |
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The red night trilogy. Red night trilogy / James Grauerholz -- from Cities of the red night. Fore! ; Invocation ; Politics here is death ; Harbor point ; Private asshole ; Lettre de marque (excerpt) ; Port Roger (excerpt) ; Cities of the red night ; We are here because of you ; Return to Port Roger -- from The place of dead roads (selections). Shoot-out in Boulder ; For three days Kim had camped on the mesa top-- ; Kim has never doubted the possibility of an afterlife-- ; Kim got off the stage at Cottonwood Junction ; Look at this picture from Tom's collection-- ; Kim recruits a band of flamboyant and picturesque outlaws-- ; Killed in the Manhattan shoot-out--April 3, 1894-- ; William Seward Hall-- ; Kim sees his life as a legend-- ; Guy Graywood arrived from New York-- ; Kim spent three years in Paris-- ; Guide traces the area on the map-- ; So in what guise shall he return to the New World-- ; Kim is heading north for Boulder-- -- from The Western lands (selections). Old writer lived in a boxcar by the river-- ; Joe the Dead lowered the rifle-- ; Neferti is eating breakfast-- ; Door dog is a limited artifact-- ; Consider the one god universe-- ; Road to the Western lands-- ; Neferti is dropping his ego, his me-- ; June 6, 1985 : Friday : I am in Iran someplace-- ; In present-day Egypt-- ; Land of the dead : a long street with trees-- ; Wishing machine ; It was a hectic, portentous time in Paris, in 1959--. |
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Late work. Late work / James Grauerholz -- from The cat inside (selections) -- from My education : a book of dreams (selections). |
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Content on sound disc. Twilight's last gleamings (from Interzone) -- Roosevelt after inauguration (from The yage letters) -- Dr. Benway is operating in an auditorium (from Naked lunch) -- Last words of Hassan Sabbah (from Nova Express) -- Unworthy vessel (from Nova Express) -- Name is Clem Snide (from Cities of the red night) -- My protagonist Kim Carson (from The Place of dead roads) -- Mummy piece (from The place of dead roads). |
| Subject |
Beats (Persons) -- Literary collections.
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Beats (Persons) |
| Genre/Form |
Literary collections.
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| Subject |
Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997.
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Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997. |
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Authors, American. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Indexed Term |
Authors, American Biography 20th century |
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Beat generation Literary collections |
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Burroughs, William S. |
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Proofs (Printing)
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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Proofs (Printing)
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Sound recordings.
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Sound recordings.
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Literature.
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Literature.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Grauerholz, James.
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Silverberg, Ira.
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| Added Title |
William S. Burroughs reader |
| ISBN |
0802116299 |
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9780802116291 |
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080213694X paperback |
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9780802136947 paperback |
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