Mentored by a Madman - The William Burroughs Experiment(Paperback / softback)

Mentored by a Madman - The William Burroughs Experiment(Paperback / softback)

A fascinating account by one of the world's leading neurologists of the profound influence of William Burroughs on his medical career. Lees journeys to the Amazonian rainforest in search of cures for Parkinson's Disease, and through self-experimentation seeks to find the answers his patients

Cat Inside (Burroughs William S.)(Paperback / softback)

Explores the personal relationship between Burroughs and

Job - Interviews with William S. Burroughs (Burroughs William S.)(Paperback / softback)

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

Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader (Burroughs William S.)(Paperback)

With the publication of Naked Lunch in 1959, William Burroughs abruptly brought international letters into the postmodern age. Beginning with his very early writing (including a chapter from his and Jack Kerouac's never-before-seen collaborative novel), Word Virus follows the arc of Burroughs's

Interzone (Burroughs William S.)(Paperback / softback)

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 four decades of oppressive sexual and social

Naked Lunch - The Restored Text (Burroughs William S.)(Paperback / softback)

Nightmarish and fiercely funny, William Burroughs' virtuoso, taboo-breaking masterpiece Naked Lunch follows Bill Lee through Interzone: a surreal, orgiastic wasteland of drugs, depravity, political plots, paranoia, sadistic medical experiments and endless, gnawing addiction. One of the most

Junky (Burroughs William S.)(Paperback / softback)

Burroughs' first novel, a largely autobiographical account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses, remains the most unflinching, unsentimental account of addiction ever written. Through junk neighbourhoods in New York, New Orleans and Mexico City, through time spent kicking,

The Western Lands (Burroughs William S.)(Paperback)

The Western Land is legendary Beat writer William S. Burrough's profound, revealing, and often astonishing meditation on morality, loneliness, life, and death -- a Book of the Dead for the nuclear age. 'Burrough's visionary power, his comic genius, and his unerring ability to crack the codes that

Rub Out the Words - Letters 1959-1974 (Burroughs William S.)(Paperback / softback)

Features letters that cover the activities of Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac in the years that gave birth to the 'Beat Generation'. Written mostly to Ginsberg or Kerouac, this title includes letters that provide a glimpse into Burroughs' psyche, revealing his struggle with drug

Junky (Burroughs William S.)(Paperback / softback)

Relates the addict's life: from initial heroin bliss to an unabated hunger for the needle, and the horrors of cold turkey and back

William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century (Hawkins Joan)(Paperback)

More than a hundred years after his birth, William S. Burroughs work and artistic methods continue to be relevant to the political and social problems of today. As early as the 1950s, Burroughs and collaborator Brion Gysin began experimenting with the cut-up, a collage technique that dates from

Nova Express - The Restored Text (Burroughs William S.)(Paperback / softback)

Fires the reader into a textual outer space to show us our burning planet and to reveal the operations of the Nova Mob in all their ugliness. This book reveals how Nova Express was cut from a wealth of typescripts to create startling new forms of poetic

My Education - A Book of Dreams (Burroughs William S.)(Paperback / softback)

A book of dreams that cover themes from the mundane and ordinary - conversations with the author's friends Allen Ginsberg or Ian Sommerville, feeding his cats, procuring drugs or sex - to the erotic, bizarre and

Soft Machine - The Restored Text (Burroughs William S.)(Paperback / softback)

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 turned us all into

Ticket That Exploded - The Restored Text (Burroughs William S.)(Paperback / softback)

An outrageous hybrid of pulp science fiction, obscene experimental poetry, and manifesto for revolution, this book is a last chance antidote to the virus of lies spread by the ad men and con men of the Nova Mob, a call to arms against those driving our planet toward the point of

Exterminator! (Burroughs William S.)(Paperback / softback)

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 himself; a Colonel lays out the precepts of the life of DE (Do Easy); and conspirators posthumously succeed in blowing up a

Tarzan of the Apes (Burroughs Edgar Rice)(Paperback / softback)

Wild Boys - A Book of the Dead (Burroughs William S.)(Paperback / softback)

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

Philadelphia Experiment: Project Invisibility - The Startling Account of a Ship that Vanished-and Returned to Damn Those Who Knew Why... (Moore William)(Paperback / softback)

Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs (Morgan Ted)(Paperback)

With a new preface as well as a final chapter on William S. Burroughs's last years, the acclaimed Literary Outlaw is the only existing full biography of an extraordinary figure. Anarchist, heroin addict, alcoholic, and brilliant writer, Burroughs was the patron saint of the Beats. His avant-garde

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, then still unknown writers, were both arrested following a murder: one of their friends had stabbed another and then come to them for advice - neither had told the

Western Lands (Burroughs William S.)(Paperback / softback)

Offers a mix of autobiographical episodes and Egyptian theology. This novel blends war films and

Naked Lunch - The Restored Text (Burroughs William S.)(Pevná vazba)

A stunning clothbound edition of William S. Burroughs's cult classic, designed by the acclaimed Coralie-Bickford Smith.Nightmarish and fiercely funny, William Burroughs' virtuoso, taboo-breaking masterpiece Naked Lunch follows Bill Lee through Interzone: a surreal, orgiastic wasteland of drugs,

The Magical Universe of William S. Burroughs (Stevens Matthew Levi)(Paperback)

'In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen. The dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect external forces, and I think that's just ridiculous. It's as bad as the church. My viewpoint is the exact