![]() Letters were lifelines for Burroughs, the outcast and works-in-progress for Burroughs, the writer and, they track his turbulent journey across two decades and three continents. Then, in Tangier, comes a dramatic shift in voice and vision and the explosive, distinctive letters that will become Naked Lunch. More than that, it shows how letter-writing was itself integral to his life and to his fiction.īeginning as surprisingly formal notes from the road to his friends Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, the letters deepen in substance and style. This volume of his correspondence from 1945 to 1959 vividly documents the personal and cultural history through which Burroughs developed, revealing clues to illuminate his life and keys to open up his texts. Burroughs has had a range of influence rivaled by few living writers. Guru of the Beat generation, minence grise of the international avant-garde, dark prophet, and blackest of satirists, William S. ![]() These funny, filthy, and terrifically smart letters reveal him in a way that no biographer can. ![]()
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