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Paperback. Pub Date :2013-03-07 Pages: 480 Language: English Publisher:. Penguin PressClassics William Burroughs life was often as extreme as his prose This second volume of his letters documents the time after the notorious publication of Naked Lunch in 1959. as he drifted away from the Beats and on towards new experiences in Europe and North Africa. We see the artist and pioneer of the cut-up method. Brion Gysin. gradually replace Ginsberg as Burroughs most trusted confidant. as they explore ideas on mind control and language. and there is correspondence with Paul Bowles. Timothy Leary and Norman Mailer. among many others. showing Burroughs work at its most experimental. and his life entering a new era of creativity and innovation. Edited by Bill MorganWonderfully compelling. vivid .. .. a triumph of judgement and judicious selection Ian Thomson. Evening StandardThese lett...
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A long anticipated collection of over 300 of Burroughs’s letters from the early ’60s through the mid ’70s, written to such recipients as Allen Ginsberg, Paul Bowles, and the surrealist artist Brion Gysin, these letters shed remarkable light on the writer’s artistic process and literary experimentation, as well as his complex personal life, in this formative period. An intimate glimpse into the private life of an often misunderstood artist, Rub Out the Words is also an indelible portrait of one of the twentieth century’s most uncompromising literary figures.
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Born in 1914 to a wealthy family in St. Louis, Missouri, William S. Burroughs was one of the most significant people in twentieth-century American popular culture and literature. A novelist, poet, and essayist, he was a primary member of the Beat Generation, influential upon such writers as Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Burroughs was the author of eighteen novels and novellas, six collections of short stories, and four collections of essays, among them the 1959 classic Naked Lunch. After living in Mexico City, Tangier, Paris, and London, Burroughs finally returned to America in 1974. He died at his home in Lawrence, Kansas, in 1997.
Bill Morgan is a writer and archival consultant. His previous books include The Typewriter Is Holy: The Complete, Uncensored History of the Beat Generation; I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg; and Beat Atlas: A State by State Guide to the Beat Generation in America. He has edited several collections of letters by Beat writers such as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and Gary Snyder. Morgan has worked as the archivist of many writers, including Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Oliver Sacks, Michael McClure, Abbie Hoffman, and Arthur Miller. He currently lives with his wife in an old farmhouse at the base of a Vermont mountain.
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