Exterminator!
10 best books like Exterminator! (William S. Burroughs): The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs and Corso in Paris, 1957-1963, Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs, The Happy Birthday of Death, William S. Burroughs, Throbbing Gristle, Brion Gysin, Gentleman Junkie: The Life and Legacy of William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac: Angelheaded Hipster, The Process, Indian Journals, Book of Dreams, In Youth is Pleasure & I Left My Grandfather's House
| Author | Barry Miles |
| ISBN | 0802138179 |
The Beat Hotel is a delightful chronicle of a remarkable moment in American literary history. From the Howl obscenity trial to the invention of the cut-up technique, Barry Miles's extraordinary narrative chronicles the feast of ideas that was Paris, where the Beats took awestruck audiences with...
| Author | Ted Morgan |
| ISBN | 0380708825 |
Anarchist, heroin addict, alcoholic, nihilist, homosexual crusader, and brilliant writer, William S. Burroughs was the patron saint and Prince of Darkness of the Beats of the 1950s. His ground-breaking avant-garde masterpiece NAKED LUNCH shocked the literary world with its graphic descriptions...
| Author | Gregory Corso |
| ISBN | 0811200272 |
It is true that he has been one of the inner circle of the 'Beats' from the first, but many admirers of his poetry feel that it belongs quite as much to other and older traditions in world literature. One of these is the revival of pure poetry whenever an “original”––be it Rimbaud or Whitman––has...
| Author | V. Vale |
| ISBN | 1889307157 |
In an inspired touch, RE/Search publisher V. Vale brought together the work of groundbreaking novelist William Burroughs and avant-garde painter Brion Gysin (already linked by their collaborations in the “cut-up” method of artistic creation) with the founders of industrial music, Throbbing...
| Author | Graham Caveney |
| ISBN | 0316137251 |
With "Gentleman Junkie," Graham Caveney gives us the definitive life of William S. Burroughs - less a biography than a "chronology of the Burroughs phenomenon, " an examination of the myth behind the man. Filled with 150 color photos - many of them never seen before - and new biographical material, "Gentleman...
| Author | Steve Turner |
| ISBN | 0670870382 |
Forty years after the publication of On the Road Kerouac has won the critical recognition he long deserved, inspiring passionate interest from a new generation of readers. This lively, visual biography highlights Kerouac's impact on the 1950s and 1960s and tracks his relentless devotion to his work,...
| Author | Brion Gysin |
| ISBN | 1585677116 |
Ulys O. Hanson, an African-American professor of the History of Slavery, who is in North Africa on a mysterious foundation grant, sets off across the Sahara on a series of wild adventures. He first meets Hamid, a mad Moroccan who turns him on, takes him over and teaches him to pass as a Moor. Mya, the richest...
| Author | Allen Ginsberg |
| ISBN | 0802134750 |
For those unfamiliar with him, Allen Ginsberg was an icon of the counter-culture in America, particularly in the 1950s as an original member of the Beat Generation. His oppositional activities continued into the 1960s, for instance in his vocal opposition to the war in Vietnam (he was among those who...
| Author | Jack Kerouac |
| ISBN | 0872863808 |
"In the Book of Dreams I just continue the same story but in the dreams I had of the real-life characters I always write about."
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WALKING THROUGH SLUM SUBURBS of Mexico City I'm stopped by smiling threesome of cats who've disengaged themselves from the general fairly crowded...
| Author | Denton Welch |
| ISBN | 1878972138 |
First published in 1945, "In Youth Is Pleasure" is a beautiful and unassuming coming-of-age novel by the English writer and painter Denton Welch (1915-1948). Painfully sensitive and sad Orville Pym is 15 years old, and this novel recounts the summer holiday after his first miserable year at public...
