![]() ![]() Ann Douglas’s introductory essay provides further background on Burroughs in the context of American letters and his Beat contemporaries. ![]() Important biographical information, contained in the chapter introductions, provide key links to understanding the work in the context of the life. Burroughs Reader follows major themes in Burroughs’ oeuvre while also serving up a sampling of his darkly hilarious “routines,” and is edited to serve as a tool for the scholar as well as an overview of his entire body of work for the general reader. Burroughs Reader brings together selections of Burroughs’ most important and challenging work”beginning with his very early writing (including a chapter from his and Jack Kerouac’s never-before-seen collaborative novel, And The Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks) and following his trajectory through My Education: A Book of Dreams. With the publication of Naked Lunch in 1959, William Burroughs brought international letters into the postmodern age, but he had already begun to chart the course that would establish him as one of postwar America’s most influential writers. ![]()
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