The Beat Generation

Interest:

• TheNow: An Essay by William S. Burroughs.

Literary Criticism:

• An Interview with William S. Burroughs (April 4, 1980, New York City) by William S. Burroughs, Jennie Skerl from Modern Language Studies, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Summer, 1982).
• William S. Burroughs’s Phantasmic Geography by Kathryn Hume from Contemporary Literature, Vol. 40, No. 1 (Spring, 1999).
• The Quest and the Question: Cosmology and Myth in the Work of William S. Burroughs, 1953-1960 by William L. Stull from Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Summer, 1978).
• The Poetics of Postmodern Subversion: The Politics of Writing in William S. Burroughs’s “The Western Lands” by Frederick M. Dolan from Contemporary Literature, Vol. 32, No. 4 (Winter, 1991).
• Notes from the Orifice: Language and the Body in William Burroughs by Robin Lydenberg from Contemporary Literature, Vol. 26, No. 1 (Spring, 1985).
• The Postmodern Anus: Parody and Utopia in Two Recent Novels by William Burroughs by Wayne Pounds from Poetics Today, Vol. 8, No. 3/4 (1987).
• “Gentle Reader, I Fain Would Spare You This, but My Pen Hath Its Will like the Ancient Mariner”: Narrator(s) and Audience in William S. Burroughs’s “Naked Lunch” by Ron Loewinsohn from Contemporary Literature, Vol. 39, No. 4 (Winter, 1998).
• Obituary: William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) by George Gessert from Leonardo, Vol. 31, No. 3, (1998).

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