Call Me Burroughs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Call Me Burroughs write by Barry Miles. This book was released on 2014-01-28. Call Me Burroughs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fifty years ago, Norman Mailer asserted, "William Burroughs is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius." Few since have taken such literary risks, developed such individual political or spiritual ideas, or spanned such a wide range of media. Burroughs wrote novels, memoirs, technical manuals, and poetry. He painted, made collages, took thousands of photographs, produced hundreds of hours of experimental recordings, acted in movies, and recorded more CDs than most rock bands. Burroughs was the original cult figure of the Beat Movement, and with the publication of his novel Naked Lunch, which was originally banned for obscenity, he became a guru to the 60s youth counterculture. In Call Me Burroughs, biographer and Beat historian Barry Miles presents the first full-length biography of Burroughs to be published in a quarter century-and the first one to chronicle the last decade of Burroughs's life and examine his long-term cultural legacy. Written with the full support of the Burroughs estate and drawing from countless interviews with figures like Allen Ginsberg, Lucien Carr, and Burroughs himself, Call Me Burroughs is a rigorously researched biography that finally gets to the heart of its notoriously mercurial subject.
The Soft Machine
The Soft Machine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Soft Machine write by William S. Burroughs. This book was released on 2011-02-24. The Soft Machine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 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 gives us a surreal space odyssey through the wounded galaxies in a book only he could create.
Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs
Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs write by Ted Morgan. This book was released on 2012-07-31. Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Almost indecently readable . . . captures [Burroughs’s] destructive energy, his ferocious pessimism, and the renegade brilliance of his style.”—Vogue 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 masterpiece Naked Lunch shook up the literary world with its graphic descriptions of drug abuse and illicit sex—and resulted in a landmark Supreme Court ruling on obscenity. Burroughs continued to revolutionize literature with novels like The Soft Machine and to shock with the events in his life, such as the accidental shooting of his wife, which haunted him until his death. Ted Morgan captures the man, his work, and his friends—Allen Ginsberg and Paul Bowles among them—in this riveting story of an iconoclast.
Last Words
Last Words - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Last Words write by William S. Burroughs. This book was released on 2000. Last Words available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Laid out as diary entries of the last nine months of Burroughs's life, "Last Words" spans the realms of cultural criticism, personal memoir, and fiction. Classic Burroughs concerns--literature, U.S. drug policy, the state of humanity, his love for his cats--permeate this poignant portrait of the man, his life, and the creative process.
William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll
William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll write by Casey Rae. This book was released on 2021-10-05. William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
