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Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs (2000; ISBN 0-8021-3778-4) Conversations with William S. Burroughs (2000) (ISBN 1578061830) Burroughs Live : The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997 (2000) (ISBN 1-58435-010-5) Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs (2007; ISBN 978-0-8142 ...
William Seward Burroughs II (/ ˈ b ʌr oʊ z /; February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist.He is widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced popular culture and literature.
William Seward Burroughs III (July 21, 1947 – March 3, 1981), also known as William S. Burroughs Jr. and Billy Burroughs, was an American novelist. He bears the name of his father, William S. Burroughs , as well as his great-grandfather, William Seward Burroughs I , the inventor of the Burroughs adding machine.
The introduction of the 25th Anniversary edition of Queer, published in 2010 and edited by Oliver Harris, who made some small revisions to the text, argued that the novel's real traumatic backstory was Burroughs' real life relationship with Lewis Marker, fictionalised in the narrative as Lee's hopeless desire for Allerton.
Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict, or Junky, is a 1953 novel by American Beat generation writer William S. Burroughs. The book follows "William Lee" as he struggles with his addiction to morphine and heroin. Burroughs based the story on his own experiences with drugs, and he published it under the pen name William Lee.
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The New York Times highlighted the book's innovative approach, noting that by tracing Burroughs’ interactions with the rock ‘n’ roll scene, the author unveils “a kind of alternative history.” [6] Billboard praised Rae's combination of personal reflections and scholarly research, stating that he “has unearthed a trove of information ...
Time by William S. Burroughs, with illustrations by Brion Gysin, is a saddle stapled pamphlet described in its publisher's forward as "a book of words and pictures." [1] It is an example of Burroughs' use of the cut-up technique, with which he began experimenting in the fall of 1959. [2]