Fifty years ago, Norman Mailer asserted, "William Burroughs is the
only American novelist living today who may conceivably be
possessed by genius." Few since have taken such literary risks,
developed such individual political or spiritual ideas, or spanned
such a wide range of media. Burroughs wrote novels, memoirs,
technical manuals, and poetry. He painted, made collages, took
thousands of photographs, produced hundreds of hours of
experimental recordings, acted in movies, and recorded more CDs
than most rock bands. Burroughs was the original cult figure of the
Beat Movement, and with the publication of his novel "Naked Lunch,"
which was originally banned for obscenity, he became a guru to the
60s youth counterculture. In CALL ME BURROUGHS, biographer and Beat
historian Barry Miles presents the first full-length biography of
Burroughs to be published in a quarter century-and the first one to
chronicle the last decade of Burroughs's life and examine his
long-term cultural legacy.
Written with the full support of the Burroughs estate and drawing
from countless interviews with figures like Allen Ginsberg, Lucien
Carr, and Burroughs himself, CALL ME BURROUGHS is a rigorously
researched biography that finally gets to the heart of its
notoriously mercurial subject.
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