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Rub Out the Words
HarperCollins 2012; US$ 27.99William S. Burroughs was one of the twentieth century?s most iconoclastic literary and artistic figures, an inimitable writer whose groundbreaking work in novels such as Junky and Naked Lunch forever altered the shape of American culture. Now, in this long anticipated collection, editor Bill Morgan takes readers through Burroughs? correspondence... more...
Speed and Kentucky Ham
Overlook 1993; US$ 14.99There is currently no description available for this title at this time. more...
Nova Express
Grove/Atlantic, Inc. 2014; US$ 14.00Nova Express takes William S. Burroughs?s nightmarish future one step beyond The Soft Machine. The diabolical Nova criminals have gained control and plan on wreaking untold destruction. It?s up to Inspector Lee of the Nova Police to attack and dismantle the word-and-imagery machine of these ?control addicts? before it?s too late. more...
The Soft Machine
Grove/Atlantic, Inc. 2014; US$ 14.00In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will take us even further into the dark recesses of his imagination, a region where nothing is sacred, nothing taboo. Continuing his ferocious verbal assault on hatred, hype, poverty, war, bureaucracy, and addiction in all its forms, Burroughs... more...
The Ticket That Exploded
Grove/Atlantic, Inc. 2014; US$ 14.00In The Ticket That Exploded, William S. Burroughs?s grand cut-up trilogy, which began with The Soft Machine and continues through Nova Express, reaches its climax as Inspector Lee and the Nova Police engage the Nova Mob in a decisive battle for the planet. more...
Rub Out the Words
Penguin Books Ltd 2012; Not AvailableThis major collection of William Burroughs' letters gives an unprecedented insight into one of America's most incisive and influential writers, at a time when his work was at its most experimental and his life entered a new era of creativity. William Burroughs' life was often as extreme as his prose. This second volume of his letters documents... more...
The Wild Boys
Penguin Books Ltd 2012; Not AvailableIn this funny, nightmarish masterpiece of imaginative excess, grotesque characters engage in acts of violent one-upmanship, boundless riches mangle a corner of Africa into a Bacchanalian utopia, and technology, flesh and violence fuse with and undo each other. A fragmentary, freewheeling novel, it sees wild boys engage in vigorous, ritualistic sex... more...
Exterminator!
Penguin Books Ltd 2012; Not AvailableA 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); conspirators posthumously succeed in blowing up a train full of nerve gas; a mandrill known as the Purple... more...
The Job
Penguin Books Ltd 2012; Not AvailableWilliam Burroughs? work was dedicated to an assault upon language, traditional values and all agents of control. Produced at a time when he was at his most extreme and messianic, The Job lays out his abrasive, incisive, paranoiac, maddened and maddening worldview in interviews interspersed with stories and other writing. On the Beat movement, the... more...
Interzone
Penguin Books Ltd 2012; Not AvailableInterzone portrays the development of Burroughs's mature writing style by presenting a selection of pieces from the mid-1950s. His outrageous tone of voice represents the exorcism of four decades of oppressive sexual and social conditioning. Burroughs's close observations of humanity - its ugliness and ignorance - invites the reader to dispense with... more...









