William S. Burroughs, Throbbing Gristle, Brion Gysin

10 best books like William S. Burroughs, Throbbing Gristle, Brion Gysin (V. Vale): Apocalypse Culture, Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs, Gentleman Junkie: The Life and Legacy of William S. Burroughs, Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica, William Burroughs: El Hombre Invisible, The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs, Wreckers of Civilisation: The Story of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle, England's Hidden Reverse: A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground, Answer Me!, Angry Women in Rock: Volume One

Apocalypse Culture

Author	Adam Parfrey
ISBN	0922915059

TWO THOUSAND YEARS have passed since the death of Christ and the world is going mad. Nihilist prophets, born-again pornographers, transcendental schizophrenics and just plain folks are united in their belief in an imminent global catastrophe. What are the forces lurking behind this mass delirium?

APOCALYPSE...

Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs

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...

Gentleman Junkie: The Life and Legacy of William S. Burroughs

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...

Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica

Author	Erik Davis
ISBN	1891241540

In these wide-ranging essays, Erik Davis explores the codes — spiritual, cultural, and embodied — that people use to escape the limitations of their lives and enrich their experience of the world. These include Asian religious traditions and West African trickster gods, Western occult and esoteric...

William Burroughs: El Hombre Invisible

Author	Barry Miles
ISBN	0753507072

Iconoclast; visionary; homosexual crusader; drug advocate; teacher and elder statesman to the Beats: William Burroughs remains one of the most complex and controversial American writers of the twentieth century.

After killing his wife in a bizarre shooting accident, Burroughs moved...

The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs

Author	William S. Burroughs
ISBN	0140118829

The Job is William S. Burroughs at work, attacking our traditional values, condemning what he calls "the American nightmare," and expressing his often barbed views on Scientology, the police, orgone therapy, history, women, writing, politics, sex, drugs, and death. His conversation splices images...

Wreckers of Civilisation: The Story of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle

Author	Simon Ford
ISBN	1901033600

I'll go ahead and say this is "amazing." Obviously, if you 1) don't care about Throbbing Gristle and/or 2) don't care about performance art, you might not get as much out of this book. Ford does a good job of not just summarizing what TG (and COUM Transmissions) did, but rooting it firmly in the context of...

England's Hidden Reverse: A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground

Author	David Keenan
ISBN	0946719675

During the 90's, I got pretty heavily into goth and industrial music; the darker and stranger, the better. In the course of my explorations, I discovered a label in the UK, World Serpent Distribution, that handled a number of artists who scratched that itch for me. The band names almost didn't matter...

Answer Me!

Author	Jim Goad
ISBN	0976403536

ANSWER Me! is a big black slab of trouble. Originally released as a series of magazines, then a collected edition which sold thousands before going out of print, ANSWER Me! has been blamed for a White House shooting and a triple suicide. It has been banned in several countries and put on trial for obscenity...

Angry Women in Rock: Volume One

Author	Andrea Juno
ISBN	0965104206

This book takes off where Gillian Garr's 1992 She's A Rebel leaves off, and is a perfect companion volume for that great book. It features interviews (that read like thoughtful essays) with Joan Jett, Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill), Valerie Agnew (7 Year Bitch), Lois Maffeo, Naomi Yang (Galaxie 500),...