{"product_id":"burroughs-file","title":"Burroughs File","description":"\u003cp\u003eTrenchant writings by that sardonic \"hombre invisible,\" William Seward Burroughs, perpetrator of \u003ci\u003eNaked Lunch\u003c\/i\u003e and other shockers. These malefic and beatific, mordant and hilarious straight-face reports on life are mostly from scatter-shot publications in obscure places, foreign and domestic. Including complete texts from \u003ci\u003eWhite Subway\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCobblestone Gardens\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Retreat Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e, this collection delineates Burroughs' comprehensive world-view and his \"insurrectionary sense of America's underside,\" as Tom Carson epitomized it in \u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso included are essays on Burroughs by Alan Ansen and Paul Bowles, and facsimile pages from the famous cut-up scrapbooks of the mid-century: \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Hours\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJohn Brady's Book\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Old Farmer's Almanac\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\" ... his Swiftian vision of a processed, prepackaged life, of a kind of electrochemical totalitarianism, often evokes the black laughter of hilarious horror.\"--\u003ci\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Burroughs may be our only writer whose socio-political apacalyptica transcend both paranoia and triviality; his imagination is superb, his ear savagely satiric.\"--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.\"--Jack Kerouac\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Burroughs\u003c\/b\u003e (1915-1997) is widely recognized as one of the most innovative writers of the twentieth century. His books include: \u003ci\u003eJunky\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNaked Lunch\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Soft Machine\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCities of the Red Night\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"City Lights Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51495299088695,"sku":"9780872861527","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/9926\/1239\/files\/imageloader_47feb00c-e476-4e8a-bb21-8a75295566b1.jpg?v=1766598474","url":"https:\/\/shop.queerbooks.com\/products\/burroughs-file","provider":"Philly AIDS Thrift @ Giovanni's Room","version":"1.0","type":"link"}