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The Adding Machine: Selected Essaysby William S. BurroughsISBN 1559702109 (1-55970-210-9)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Adding Machine: Collected Essaysby William S. BurroughsISBN 0714540730 (0-7145-4073-0)
Hardcover, John Calder
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Americus: Book Iby Lawrence FerlinghettiISBN 0811216411 (0-8112-1641-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Menby Gene Feldman, Max GartenbergISBN 0806509244 (0-8065-0924-4)
Softcover, Book Sales
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Big Sky Mind : Buddhism and the Beat Generationby Carole TonkinsonISBN 1573225010 (1-57322-501-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Blade Runner: A Movie [novel]by William S. BurroughsISBN 0912652462 (0-912652-46-2)
Softcover, Blue Wind Pr
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Book of Dreamsby Jack Kerouac, Robert CreeleyISBN 0872863808 (0-87286-380-8)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Book of Dreams'Book summary:San Francisco, California, U.S.A.: City Lights Books, 1981. Book. VG. Soft cover. Reprint. Jack Kerouac's private dream record of what he saw in his sleep, "the poetic raw material of the Kerouac sage, the substrata of his novelas and commentary upon them," dedicated to "the roses of the unborn.'' [via]
The Burroughs Fileby William S. Burroughs, Sylvere LotringerISBN 1584350105 (1-58435-010-5)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Burroughs Live'Book summary:[via]Trenchant writings by that sardonic ""hombre invisible,"" William Seward Burroughs, perpetrator of Naked Lunch and other shockers. These malefic and beatific, mordant and hilarious straight-face reports on life are mostly from scatter-shot publications in obscure places, foreign and domestic. Including complete texts from White Subway, Cobblestone Gardens, and The Retreat Diaries, this collection delineates Burroughs' comprehensive world-view and his ""insurrectionary sense of America's underside, as Tom Carson epitomized it in The Village Voice.
Also included are essays on Burroughs by Alan Ansen and Paul Bowles, and facsimile pages from the famous cut-up scrapbooks of the mid-century: The Book of Hours, John Brady's Book, and The Old Farmer's Almanac.
Cities of the Red Nightby William S. BurroughsISBN 0805017631 (0-8050-1763-1)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cities of the Red Night'Book summary:While young men wage war against an evil empire of zealous mutants, the population of this modern inferno is afflicted with the epidemic of a radioactive virus. An opium-infused apocalyptic vision from the legendary author of Naked Lunch is the first of the trilogy with The Places of the Dead Roads and his final novel, The Western Plains.
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Conversations With William Burroughsby William S. Burroughs, Allen HibbardISBN 1578061830 (1-57806-183-0)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Mississippi
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Conversations With William S. Burroughs'Book summary:Although a rather shy, private man, William Burroughs gave a good many interviews during his lifetime, some in prominent publications, others in obscure forums. The interviews collected here provide an aperture into the philosophies, methods, and quirks of a man who wrote Queer, Junky, Naked Lunch, Nova Express, Cities of the Red Night, My Education, and many other works.
When he died in 1997, Burroughs was likely one of the most widely recognizable figures in contemporary American literature. His image circulated on album jackets, in Nike commercials, and in films, as though proving his notion that pictures and words are viruses, invading any receptive host, taking hold, and replicating themselves.
Not surprisingly, the topics Burroughs touches upon are wide-ranging: his relationships to the Beats, legends surrounding his personal life, drugs, gay liberation, collaboration, the cut-up technique, science fiction, politics, conspiracy theory, censorship, cats, guns, David Cronenberg's movie adaptation of Naked Lunch, shotgun art, dreams, and life in Lawrence, Kansas, where he spent his last years. From these interviews emerges a full, undiluted portait of a writer who is difficult to capture in biography.
Speaking of the Paris Review interview Alfred Kazin calls Burroughs "an engineer of the pen, a calmly interested specialist of the new processes. When Burroughs makes philosophic and scientific claims for his disorderly collections of data, we happily recognize under the externally calm surface of the interview, the kind of inner frenzy that is his genius--and which, in all of us, his books make an appeal." Kazin's view applies as well for the other interviews in this collection.
Allen Hibbard is an associate professor of English and the director of graduate studies at Middle Tennessee State University. He is the author of Paul Bowles: A Study of the Short Fiction and of many articles. [via]
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Desolation Angelsby John KerouacISBN 1573225053 (1-57322-505-3)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Desolation Angels'Book summary:With the publication of On the Road in 1957, Jack Kerouac became at once the spokesman and hero of the Beat Generation. Along with such visionaries as William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, and Allen Ginsberg, Kerouac changed the face of American literature, igniting a counterculture revolution that even now, decades later, burns brighter than ever in Desolation Angels.[via]
In one of the major cinematic events of 2012, Jack Kerouac's legendary Beat classic, On the Road, finally hits the big screen. Directed by Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries; Paris, Je T'Aime) and with a cast of some of Hollywood's biggest young stars, including Kristen Stewart (The Twilight Saga), Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, Kirsten Dunst, Amy Adams (Julie & Julia, The Fighter), Tom Sturridge, and Viggo Mortensen (the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Road), the film will attract new fans who will be inspired by Kerouac's revolutionary writing.More editions of Desolation Angels:
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Dharma Bumsby Jack KerouacISBN 0140042520 (0-14-004252-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dharma Bums'Book summary:One of the best and most popular of Kerouac's autobiographical novels, The Dharma Bums is based on experiences the writer had during the mid-1950s while living in California, after he'd become interested in Buddhism's spiritual mode of understanding. One of the book's main characters, Japhy Ryder, is based on the real poet Gary Snyder, who was a close friend and whose interest in Buddhism influenced Kerouac. This book is a must-read for any serious Kerouac fan. [via]
Electronic Revolution/Die Elektronische Revolutionby William S. BurroughsISBN 388030002X (3-88030-002-X)
Softcover, Expanded Media Editions
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Everything Is Permitted: The Making of Naked Lunchby Ira SilverbergISBN 0802133037 (0-8021-3303-7)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Four Horsemen of the Apocalypseby William BorroughsISBN 3880300275 (3-88030-027-5)
Softcover, Left Bank Books
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Ghost of Chanceby William S. BurroughsISBN 1852424575 (1-85242-457-5)
Softcover, Serpents Tail
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ghost of Chance'Book summary:[via]Ghost of Chance is an adventure story set in the jungle of Madagascar and filled with the obsessions that mark the work of the man who Norman Mailer once called, the only American writer possessed by genius. While tripping through the author's trademark concernsdrugs, paranoia, and lemurs, this short novel tells an important story about environmental devastation in a way that only Burroughs can.
Born in 1914, William S. Burroughs is the author of Junky, Naked Lunch and The Soft Machine and many other contemporary classics. A major figure of 20th century American literature, Burroughs died in 1997.
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Howl, and Other Poemsby Allen GinsbergISBN 0872860175 (0-87286-017-5)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Howl, and Other Poems'Book summary:The epigraph for Howl is from Walt Whitman: "Unscrew the locks from the doors!/Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!" Announcing his intentions with this ringing motto, Allen Ginsberg published a volume of poetry which broke so many social taboos that copies were impounded as obscene, and the publisher, poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, was arrested. The court case that followed found for Ginsberg and his publisher, and the publicity made both the poet and the book famous. Ginsberg went on from this beginning to become a cultural icon of sixties radicalism. This works seminal place in the culture is indicated in Czeslaw Milosz's poetic tribute to Ginsberg: "Your blasphemous howl still resounds in a neon desert where the human tribe wanders, sentenced to unreality". [via]
The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughsby William S. Burroughs, Daniel OdierISBN 0714540285 (0-7145-4028-5)
Softcover, John Calder
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Last Words of Dutchby William S. BurroughsISBN 1559702117 (1-55970-211-7)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughsby William S. Burroughs, James GrauerholzISBN 0802137784 (0-8021-3778-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs'Book summary:Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs is the most intimate book ever written by William S. Burroughs, the author of Naked Lunch and one of the most celebrated literary outlaws of our time. Last Words is a complex portrait of Burroughs at the end of his life, coming to terms with aging and death. While laid out as simple diary entries of the last nine months of his life, Last Words spans the realms of cultural criticism, personal memoir, and fiction. Classic Burroughs concerns - his rants on U.S. drug policy, his contempt for the state of the human race, his love for his cats - permeate the book. Burroughs breaks into classic "routines" and provides frequent commentary on whatever he is reading - from high literature to low-brow thrillers. Whether occupied with the banalities of life (housekeeping, dealing with doctors) or the glories (shooting a video with U2, opening a museum show of his paintings), the "Old Man" emerges as frequently comical, sometimes meditative, and always engaged-a commentator on the state of the world and the self. Most significantly, Last Words contains some of the most brutally personal prose Burroughs has ever written. His reflections on the deaths of his friends Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary provide a window onto the preparations Burroughs was making for his own death - a quest for absolution marked by a profound sense of guilt and loss. Last Words is unlike anything else in the oeuvre of William S. Burroughs. It is the purest, most personal work ever presented by this writer, and a poignant portrait of the man, his life, and his creative process-one that never quit, even in the shadow of death. [via]
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The Letters of William S. Burroughs 1945-1959by William S. Burroughs, Oliver HarrisISBN 0670813486 (0-670-81348-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Letters of William S. Burroughs 1945-1959'Book summary:A volume of correspondence chronicles the early career and early inspirations of the noted author of Naked Lunch and Junky. 15,000 first printing. 15,000 ad/promo. [via]
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Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957by William S. Burroughs, Allen GinsbergISBN 091619017X (0-916190-17-X)
Softcover, Full Court Pr
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Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughsby Ted MorganISBN 0805009019 (0-8050-0901-9)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs'Book summary:Almost indecently readable . . . captures [Burroughss] 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. Burroughss 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 sexand 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 friendsAllen Ginsberg and Paul Bowles among themin this riveting story of an iconoclast. 18 photographs [via]More editions of Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs:
Mexico City Bluesby Jack KerouacISBN 0802130607 (0-8021-3060-7)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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My Educationby William S. BurroughsISBN 0670813508 (0-670-81350-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Education'Book summary:A provocative, intensely personal novel by the author of The Western Lands interweaves a world of vivid and visionary dreams into a direct and powerful force in human life. 15,000 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo. [via]
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My Kind of Angel: I. M. William Burroughsby Rupert LoydellISBN 1900152428 (1-900152-42-8)
Softcover, Stride Publications
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Naked Lunchby William S. Burroughs, Barry Miles, James GrauerholzISBN 0802140181 (0-8021-4018-1)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Naked Lunch'Book summary:"He was," as Salon's Gary Kamiya notes, "20th-century drug culture's Poe, its Artaud, its Baudelaire. He was the prophet of the literature of pure experience, a phenomenologist of dread.... Burroughs had the scary genius to turn the junk wasteland into a parallel universe, one as thoroughly and obsessively rendered as Blake's."
Why has this homosexual ex-junkie, whose claim to fame rests entirely on one book--the hallucinogenic ravings of a heroine addict--so seized the collective imagination? Burroughs wrote Naked Lunch in a Tangier, Morocco, hotel room between 1954 and 1957. Allen Ginsberg and his beatnik cronies burst onto the scene, rescued the manuscript from the food-encrusted floor, and introduced some order to the pages. It was published in Paris in 1959 by the notorious Olympia Press and in the U.S. in 1962; the landmark obscenity trial that ensued served to end literary censorship in America.
Burroughs's literary experiment--the much-touted "cut-up" technique--mirrored the workings of a junkie's brain. But it was junk coupled with vision: Burroughs makes teeming amalgam of allegory, sci-fi, and non-linear narration, all wrapped in a blend of humor--slapstick, Swiftian, slang-infested humor. What is Naked Lunch about? People turn into blobs amidst the sort of evil that R. Crumb, in the decades to come, would inimitably flesh out with his dark and creepy cartoon images. Perhaps the most easily grasped part of Naked Lunch is its America-bashing, replete with slang and vitriol. Read it and see for yourself. [via]
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- Naked Lunch: ISBN 0802132952 (0-8021-3295-2)
Softcover, Pub Group West - Naked Lunch: ISBN 0394538838 (0-394-53883-8)
Hardcover, Grove Pr - Naked Lunch: ISBN 0394538846 (0-394-53884-6)
Hardcover, Grove Pr - Naked Lunch: ISBN 0613706188 (0-613-70618-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Naked Lunch: ISBN 0802116396 (0-8021-1639-6)
Hardcover, Grove Pr - Naked Lunch: ISBN 0802140181 (0-8021-4018-1)
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- Naked Lunch: ISBN 0802132952 (0-8021-3295-2)
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Nothing Is True Everything Is Permitted: The Life Of Brion Gysinby John GeigerISBN 1932857125 (1-932857-12-5)
Hardcover, Disinformation Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nothing Is True Everything Is Permitted: The Life Of Brion Gysin'Book summary:The multimedia artist, poet and novelist Brion Gysin may be the most influential cultural figure of the twentieth century that most people have never heard of.
Gysin (1916-1986) was an English-born, Canadian-raised, naturalized American of Swiss descent, who lived most of his life in Morocco and France. He went everywhere when the going was good. He dabbled with surrealism in Paris in the 1930s, lived in the "interzone" of Tangier in the 1950s and traveled the Algerian Sahara with Sheltering Sky author Paul Bowles before moving into the legendary Beat Hotel in Paris.
Gysin's ideas influenced generations of artists, musicians and writers, among them David Bowie, Keith Haring, Patti Smith, Michael Stipe, Genesis P-Orridge, John Giorno and Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones. None was touched more profoundly than William S. Burroughs, who said admiringly of Gysin: "There was something dangerous about what he was doing."
It was Gysin who introduced the Rolling Stones to the exotica of Morocco and took Stones' guitarist Brian Jones to Jajouka where he recorded the tribal musicians performing the Pipes of Pan. It was Gysin who provided the hashish fudge recipe published in Alice B. Toklas' cookbook, promising "ecstatic reveries and extensions of one's personality on several simultaneous planes." It was Gysin who introduced Burroughs to an automatic writing method called the cut-up, a literary progenitor to sampling. And it was Gysin who developed--with Ian Sommerville, the Dream Machine--a device that allowed people, with the flick of a switch, to access altered states of consciousness without drugs.
Working with the authorization of Gysin's literary executor, William S. Burroughs, John Geiger has produced the first-ever biography of the painter, poet, piper Brion Gysin.
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Nova Expressby William S. BurroughsISBN 0802133304 (0-8021-3330-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nova Express'Book summary:Nova Express takes William S. Burroughss nightmarish future one step beyond The Soft Machine. The diabolical Nova criminals have gained control and plan on wreaking untold destruction. Its up to Inspector Lee of the Nova Police to attack and dismantle the word-and-imagery machine of these control addicts before its too late.[via]More editions of Nova Express:
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On the Roadby Jack KerouacISBN 0140042598 (0-14-004259-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Road'Book summary:In its time Jack Kerouac's masterpiece was the bible of the Beat Generation, the essential prose accompaniment to Allen Ginsberg's Howl . While it stunned the public and literary establishment when it was published in 1957, it is now recognized as an American classic. With On the Road , Kerouac discovered his voice and his true subject-the search for a place as an outsider in America. On the Road swings to the rhythms of fifties underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns, and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveler and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. "Life is great, and few can put the zest and wonder and sadness and humor of it on paper more interestingly than Kerouac." -Luther Nichols, San Francisco Examiner "Just as, more than any other novel of the Twenties, The Sun Also Rises came to be regarded as the testament of the Lost Generation, so it seems certain that On the Road will come to be known as that of the Beat Generation." -Gilbert Millstein, The New York Times @Didn'tTypeOnTP! For TWITTERATURE of On the Road by Jack Kerouac, please see On the Road by Jack Kerouac. From Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less [via]
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- On the Road: ISBN 0140283293 (0-14-028329-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - On the Road: ISBN 0142437255 (0-14-243725-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - On the Road: ISBN 0143036386 (0-14-303638-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - On the Road: ISBN 0670874787 (0-670-87478-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA - On the Road: ISBN 0899661343 (0-89966-134-3)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books - On the Road: ISBN 0140155112 (0-14-015511-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - On the Road: ISBN 0140185216 (0-14-018521-6)
Softcover, Penguin USA - On the Road: ISBN 0142002747 (0-14-200274-7)
Hardcover, Penguin USA - On the Road: ISBN 0785796320 (0-7857-9632-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - On the Road: ISBN 0140042598 (0-14-004259-8)
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The Place of Dead Roadsby William S. BurroughsISBN 0714540323 (0-7145-4032-3)
Softcover, Calder
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Place of Dead Roads'Book summary:A good old-fashioned shoot-out in the American West of the frontier days serves as the springboard for this hyperkinetic adventure in which gunslingers lead by Kim Carson fight for galactic freedom.AUTHORBIO: William S. Burroughs was born in St. Louis in 1914.His many other works include NAKED LUNCH and JUNKY.Described by Norman Mailer as one of Americas few writers genuinely possessed by genius, he died in 1997.
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- The Place of Dead Roads: ISBN 0805015418 (0-8050-1541-8)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry - The Place of Dead Roads : A Novel: ISBN 0805039546 (0-8050-3954-6)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry - The Place of Dead Roads: ISBN 0714540307 (0-7145-4030-7)
Hardcover, Calder - The Place of Dead Roads: ISBN 0714540323 (0-7145-4032-3)
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Port of Saintsby William S. BurroughsISBN 0912652659 (0-912652-65-9)
Softcover, Blue Wind Pr
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The Portable Beat Readerby Ann ChartersISBN 0670838853 (0-670-83885-3)
Hardcover, Viking
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The Scripture of the Golden Eternityby Jack KerouacISBN 0872862917 (0-87286-291-7)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scripture of the Golden Eternity'Book summary:[via]These classic Kerouac meditations, zen koans, and prose poems express the poets beatific quest for peace and joy through oneness with the universe.
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The Soft Machineby William S. BurroughsISBN 0802133290 (0-8021-3329-0)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Soft Machine'Book summary: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.[via]More editions of The Soft Machine:
The Soft Machine: Nova Express ; The Wild Boys Three Novelsby William S. BurroughsISBN 0802143342 (0-8021-4334-2)
Softcover
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Some of the Dharmaby Jack KerouacISBN 0140287078 (0-14-028707-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Some of the Dharma'Book summary:Written during a critical period of his life, "Some of the Dharma" is a key volume in Jack Kerouac's vast autobiographical canon. He began writing it in 1953 as reading notes on Buddhism intended for his friend, poet Allen Ginsberg. As Kerouac's Buddhist study and meditation practice intensified, what had begun as notes evolved into a vast and all-encompassing work of nonfiction into which he poured his life, incorporating poems, haiku, prayers, journal entries, meditations, fragments of letters, ideas about writing, overheard conversations, sketches, blues, and more. The final manuscript, completed in 1956, was as visually complex as the writing: each page was unique, typed in patterns and interlocking shapes. The elaborate form which Kerouac so painstakingly gave the book on his manual typewriter is re-created in this typeset facsimile. [via]
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Subterraneansby Jack KerouacISBN 0802131867 (0-8021-3186-7)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Subterraneans'Book summary:In "Subterraneans" Leo and Mardou live amongst the Subterraneans who haunt the bars and clubs of San Fransisco and have a bittersweet love affair. In "Pic", on the road but not yet overawed, ten-year-old Pic tells the story in the Negro dialect of the North Carolina farm country. [via]
Three Novels: The Soft Machine, Nova Express, the Wild Boysby William BurroughsISBN 0802130844 (0-8021-3084-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Ticket That Explodedby William S. BurroughsISBN 0802151507 (0-8021-5150-7)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Tornado Alleyby William S. BurroughsISBN 0916156834 (0-916156-83-4)
Softcover, Beach & Co Pub
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Town & the Cityby John KerouacISBN 0848810686 (0-8488-1068-6)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Town & the City'Book summary:In this compelling first novel, Kerouac draws on his New England mill-town boyhood to create the world of George and Marguerite Martin and their eight children, each endowed with an energy and a vision of life.[via] 
The Western Landsby William S. BurroughsISBN 0670813524 (0-670-81352-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Wild Boys: A Book of the Deadby William S. BurroughsISBN 0802133312 (0-8021-3331-2)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Willard and His Bowling Trophiesby Richard BrautiganISBN 0671820435 (0-671-82043-5)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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William Burroughs: El Hombre Invisibleby Barry MilesISBN 1562828487 (1-56282-848-7)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Burroughs: El Hombre Invisible'Book summary:[via]"Miles familiarizes even old close readers with a fine map of Burroughs' mind." Allen GinsbergIconoclast; visionary; homosexual crusader; drug advocate; teacher and elder statesman to Jack Kracouac, Allen Ginsberg, and the Beats; anti-hero guru to each successive counter-culture generationthis is a portait of a man who remains one of the most complex and controversial American writers of the 20th century. After killing his wife in a bizarre shooting accident, he moved to Tangier where he lived in male brothel and wrote his celebrated bestseller Naked Lunchin Newsweek's words "A masterpiece. A cry from Hell."as a series of letters to Allen Ginsberg. He lived at the Beat Hotel in Paris and spent a decade in London before returning as prodigal son to New York in 1974 after 25 years of self imposed exile. Following Burroughs' death in August 1997, Barry Miles updated his riveting, unconventional biography of this legendary provocateur.More editions of William Burroughs: El Hombre Invisible:
William Burroughs: El Hombre Invisible A Portraitby Barry MilesISBN 078688018X (0-7868-8018-X)
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William Burroughs: The Algebra of Needby Eric MottramISBN 0714525626 (0-7145-2562-6)
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William S. Burroughsby Jennie SkerlISBN 0805774386 (0-8057-7438-6)
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William S. Burroughs At the Front: Critical Reception, 1959 - 1989by Jennie Skerl, Robin LydenbergISBN 0809315866 (0-8093-1586-6)
Softcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William S. Burroughs At the Front: Critical Reception, 1959 - 1989'Book summary:[via]Jennie Skerl and Robin Lydenberg have selected twenty-five critical essays on Burroughs that reflect the historical reception of his work, both positive and negative, decade by decade, and that represent the best essays written about him.
The essays cover Burroughs major novelsincluding the cut-up and new trilogiesthe censorship issue, and his work in film and painting. The chronological organization brings into critical focus the shift from moral questions raised by the novels content, through examinations of Burroughs relationship to humanism and modernism, and finally to more focused literary and linguistic issues. In their introduction, the editors survey the progress of Burroughs critical reception and examine the reasons for the varied and intense responses to the work and the theoretical assumptions behind those responses.
The reviewers include prominent figures such as Mary McCarthy and Marshall McLuhan as well as major academic critics such as Cary Nelson, Tony Tanner, and Ihab Hassan.
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Yage Lettersby William BurroughsISBN 0872860043 (0-87286-004-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Yage Letters'Book summary:The Yage Letters: an early epistolary novel by William S. Burroughs, whose 1952 account of himself as Junkie, published under the pseudonym William Lee, ended "Yage may be the final fix." In letters to Allen Ginsberg, an unknown young poet in New York, his journey to the Amazon jungle is recorded, detailing picaresque incidents of search for telepathic-hallucinogenic-mind-expanding drug Yage (Ayahuasca, or Banisteriopsis Caapé) used by Amazon Indian doctors for finding lost objects, mostly bodies and souls. Author and recipient of these letters met again in New York, Xmas 1953, pruned and edited the writings to form a single book. Correspondence contains first seeds of later Burroughsian fantasy in Naked Lunch. Seven years later Ginsberg in Peru writes his old guru an account of his own visions and terrors with the same drug, appealing for further counsel. Burroughs' mysterious reply is sent. The volume concludes with two epilogues: a short note from Ginsberg on his return from the Orient years later reassuring Self that he is still here on earth, and a final poetic cut-up by Burroughs, "I Am Dying Meester?"
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The Yage Letters Reduxby William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Oliver HarrisISBN 0872864480 (0-87286-448-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Yage Letters Redux'Book summary:[via]In January 1953, William S. Burroughs began an expedition into the jungles of South America to find yage, the fabled hallucinogen of the Amazon. From the notebooks he kept and the letters he wrote home to Allen Ginsberg, Burroughs composed a narrative of his adventures that later appeared as The Yage Letters. For this edition, Oliver Harris has gone back to the original manuscripts and untangled the history of the text, telling the fascinating story of its genesis and cultural importance. Also included in this edition are extensive materials, never before published, by both Burroughs and Ginsberg.
William S. Burroughs is widely recognized as one of the most influential and innovative writers of the twentieth century. His books include Junky, Naked Lunch, and The Wild Boys.
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Zen and the Beat Wayby Alan WattsISBN 0804831173 (0-8048-3117-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zen and the Beat Way'Book summary:Ready for a blast from the past? Readers of a certain age might remember Alan Watts, a former Episcopal priest who fled both his native land of England and his religion for California and Zen Buddhism respectively. For many young Americans growing up in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Watts was their first taste of the counterculture to come; Through him, a generation discovered Eastern spirituality and learned to let down their hair and experience a little joy. Now, six of Watts's unpublished lectures have been collected and adapted in Zen and the Beat Way, a compendium of radio and seminar talks Watts gave between 1959 and 1965. There's something rather dated yet endearing about Watts's pronouncements--everything from his misconceptions about Eastern religions to his bumper-sticker clichés. Still, Zen and the Beat Way is charmingly written and provides older readers with a nostalgic trip down memory lane while giving those born after the '60s a taste of the era's ethos. [via]
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El Almuerzo Desnudoby W. BURROUGHSISBN 8433920081 (84-339-2008-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Almuerzo Desnudo'Book summary:Esta novela, una de las mas miticas de la literatura norteamericana, es un descenso a los infiernos de la droga y una denuncia horrorizada y sardonica, onirica y alucinatoria de la sociedad actual, un mundo sin esperanza ni futuro. Burroughs dispara sus flechas contra las religiones, el ejercito, la universidad, la sexualidad, la justicia corrupta, los traficantes tramposos, el colonialismo, la burocracia, y la psiquiatria representada por el siniestro Dr. Benway, el gran manipulador de conciencias, el experto en Control total. / Naked Lunch, one of the most mythical novels of North American literature, is a descent into the hellfire of drugs, and a horrified, sardonic, dreamlike and hallucinatory denouncement of todays society, a world with no hope and no future. Burroughs fires his arrows against religion, the army, university, sexuality, the corruption of justice, cheating dealers, colonialism, bureaucracy and the psychiatry represented by the sinister Dr. Benway, the great manipulator of consciences, the expert of total Control. [via]
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En el Caminoby Jack Kerouac, Martín LendínezISBN 8433920146 (84-339-2014-6)
Hardcover, Anagrama Editorial S. A.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'En el Camino'Book summary:Este libro fue la Biblia y el manifiesto de la generacion beat y se ha convertido en una novela de culto y en un clasico de la literatura norteamericana. Se narran aqui los viajes enloquecidos, a bordo de Cadillacs prestados y Dodges desvencijados, de un mitico hipster y un narrador. Esta es la cronica de unos protagonistas que fueron en la vida real: Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg y William Burroughs. [via]
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