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Celebrating and analyzing a landmark novel that is aberrant,
obscene, and blasphemous, ""Naked Lunch"" was banned, ridiculed,
and castigated on publication in 1959, and yet fifty years down the
line it has lost nothing of its power to astonish and inspire. A
lacerating satire, an exorcism of demons, a grotesque cabinet of
horrors, and a landmark experiment in linguistic derangement, it is
a work of ecstatic, excoriating laughter and great, transcendent
beauty. The first book ever to take on William Burroughs'
masterpiece, this critical collection brings together an
international array of writers, scholars, musicians, scientists,
and artists who cast new eyes on the writing and reception of
Burroughs' unique work. Tracing its origins from Texas to Tangier,
from Mexico City to New York and Paris, crossing time zones and
cultures, ""Naked Lunch @ 50"" breaks new ground in understanding
this most influential but elusive of texts. ""Naked Lunch @ 50""
includes studies of the text's manuscript and textual history, of
its origins in and creative debts to a range of specific locations,
of its reception in different societies over time and in relation
to broader cultural, artistic, and personal histories. Contributors
discuss the novel's existence as a physical object in regard to
both design and collectability, the history of its critical
reception, its cultural importance in relation to censorship and
visionary art, its relationship to literary genres - from science
fiction to the horror film - and its significance as a work
prophetic of current trends in electronic culture and biology. A
series of introductory sections, or 'Dossiers', written by Ian
MacFadyen, provide glimpses of further horizons of research and
reading, while a set of endpapers by the artist Philip Taaffe
offers a visual correlative to Burroughs' extraordinary text.
When the body of Timothy Wall, a Private Detective, is found in his
office, the querulous Inspector Carmichael discovers some
surprising revelations and curious contradictions about the dead
man. Loved by many and seemingly despised by others in equal
measure, Timothy Wall's whole world seems to be strewn with
paradoxes. This fast-moving whodunnit, based in the North West of
England, sees McFadyen's detective team tackle one of their most
taxing cases yet. Who killed Timothy Wall? Will one of his numerous
lovers or ex-partners provide the answer to the conundrum? And what
about Tim's involvement with the brothers Baybutt, the local
bookmakers. Do they know more than they are telling? As Carmichael
and his team seek answers to these questions it becomes crystal
clear that all was not quite how it seemed in the life of Timothy
Wall. This, the nineth book in the Carmichael series, is full of
twists, turns and red herrings that will keep the reader guessing
right up to the bitter end.
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IRA Cohen: Into the Mylar Chamber (Hardcover)
Ira Cohen; Edited by Allan Graubard; Text written by Ian MacFadyen, Thurston Moore, Timothy Baum, …
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