Gentleman Junkie: The Life and Legacy of William S. Burroughs
7 best books like Gentleman Junkie: The Life and Legacy of William S. Burroughs (Graham Caveney): Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs, Herbert Huncke Reader, William S. Burroughs, Throbbing Gristle, Brion Gysin, Last Words: The Final Journals, The Further Inquiry, Selected Letters, 1940-1956, Call Me Burroughs: A Life
| 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...
Herbert Huncke's most enduring contribution to the Beat Generation was not his use of drugs or his easy attitude toward the law. What most captivated the Beats was his extraordinary ability to relate his life story in pared-down, unaffected prose. It inspired them to create a new type of literature,...
| 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 | William S. Burroughs |
| ISBN | 0802137784 |
Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs is the most intimate book ever written by William S. Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch and one of the most celebrated literary outlaws of our time. Laid out as diary entries of the last nine months of Burroughs's life, Last Words spans the realms of...
| Author | Ken Kesey |
| ISBN | 0670831743 |
American writer, who gained world fame with his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962, filmed 1975). In the 1960s, Kesey became a counterculture hero and a guru of psychedelic drugs with Timothy Leary. Kesey has been called the Pied Piper, who changed the beat generation into the hippie movement.
Ken...
| Author | Jack Kerouac |
| ISBN | 0140234446 |
Thirty years after his death, popular and academic interest in the life and work of Jack Kerouac have reached an all-time high. The first volume of his selected letters, edited by renowned biographer and Beat scholar Ann Charters, was widely regarded as a vital and momentous contribution to Kerouac...
| Author | Barry Miles |
| ISBN | 1455511951 |
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...
