4.5
Call Me Burroughs
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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
, which was originally banned for obscenity, he became a guru to the 60s youth counterculture. In
, 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,
is a rigorously researched biography that finally gets to the heart of its notoriously mercurial subject.
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4.5
“An erudite biography of America’s avant-garde literary sensation. Extremely thorough, filled with sources up the wazoo, and from a scholar involved directly in the management of the Burroughs archive! There were moments where sources were wanting for particular statements, but by and large, an extremely well documented and invaluable source. Burroughs and company lived CRAZY lives.”“A well-written and exhaustively researched critical biography of a fascinating man of American letters. Having lived a life of endless intellectual curiosity suffused with drugs, guns, cynicism, boundless misogyny, deliberate cruelty to some and dependence on others, a fearful and chaotic worldview, and having lived through very real horrors (many of his own making and all chronicled in his works), were he alive today I believe Burroughs would be sitting in bemused judgment of what the world has become. It is ever more what he had warned us against.”
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