Introduction from Queer
William S. Burroughs When I lived in Mexico City at the end of the 1940s, it was a city of one million people, with clear sparkling air and the sky that special shade of blue that goes so well with...
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New York: Viking 1985, first US printing, hardbound in dust jacket. An early autobiographical manuscript published some thirty years after being written. _____ Uncorrected Galley Proof in wraps...
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New York: Quality Paperbook Book Club 1995, three novels in one volume available only to book club members, bound in pictorial wraps. This bibliography of A-List publications by William S. Burroughs...
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by Oliver Harris This is an edited version of a paper delivered to the 4th Annual Symposium on Textual Studies at the Centre for Textual Scholarship, De Montfort University, Leicester, 25 May 2007. I’d...
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By Volume Editor, Oliver Harris Background: The Crying of Lot 22 Where it had been since 1953 and how it got into the hands of a private collector remain a mystery, but it surfaced in October 1999 as...
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Re-Editing William S. Burroughs’ First Trilogy By Oliver Harris This is the written version of a talk given by Professor Harris at Columbia University on 16 September 2010. See also Oliver Harris...
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A Few Questions and Answers with the Editor of the New Edition of William S. Burroughs’ Queer Though the first published edition of Queer was assembled from a mix of manuscript sources, it was done...
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Part of the Hendrick’s Lecture Series, organised by The Last Tuesday Society, 19th November 2010 by Rona Cran Viktor Wynd’s Little Shop of Horrors, situated unassumingly on Mare Street in Hackney, is a...
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By Thom Robinson Introduction On publication in 1983, The Place of Dead Roads was received as William Burroughs’ long-awaited Western, a project originally announced two decades before.1 Forming the...
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