Contributor
Hawkins, Joan, 1953- editor.
ImprintBloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2019]
Descriptionxxii, 434 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Note:Metamorphosis -- Cutting Up the Century / Oliver Harris -- The Reality Studio -- Deposition of the Ugly Spirit -- Burroughs and Biography: an Interview with Barry Miles / Oliver Harris -- Cutting Up the Critics --The Nova Convention : Celebrating the Burroughs of Downtown New York / Kristen Galvin -- Nova Convention Poster -- The Disembodied Fry: William S. Burroughs and Vocal Performance / Landon Palmer -- Cut-up with Limericks -- William S. Burroughs' Spirit of Collaboration / Allen Hibbard -- Burroughs and the Biosphere, 1974-1997 / Kathelin Gray -- The Permissive Society -- Beat Regionalism: Burroughs in Mexico, Burroughs in Women's Studies / Aaron Nyerges -- Collage of New Clippings -- Interference Zones: William Burroughs in the Interstices of Globalization / Timothy S. Murphy -- On China -- Cut-up City: William S. Burroughs' "St. Louis Return" / Eric Sandweiss -- On Addiction -- William S. Burroughs' Imperial Decadence: Subversive Literature in the Cynical Age of the American Century / Alex Wermer-Colan -- Opium Collage -- Naked Lunch and the Art of Incompleteness: the Use of Genre in Burroughs' Book and Cronenberg's Film / Joshua Vasquez -- The Fall of Art -- Queer Outlaws Losing: the Betrayal of the Outlaw Underground in The Place of Dead Roads / Kurt Hemmer -- Thinking in Colors -- Rimbaud and Genet, Burroughs' Favorite Mirrors / Véronique Lane -- On the Cut-up -- Cross the Wounded Galaxies: a Conversation about the Cut-Up Trilogy / Davis Schneiderman and Oliver Harris -- The Photo Collage: Watergate -- "Word Falling... Photo Falling": William S. Burroughs and the Word as Written Image / Blake Stricklin -- Cutting up Scientology -- Mutable Forms : The Proto-Ecology of William Burroughs' Early Cut-Ups / Chad Weidner -- The Wild Boys, a Pornographic Screenplay -- William S. Burroughs, Transcendence Portn, and The Ticket That Expoded / Katharine Streip -- Dream Note on Indictment for Murdering Joan -- Gender Trouble: a Critical Roundtable on Burroughs and Gender / Ann Douglas, Anne Waldman, and Regina Weinreich -- Cutting up Last Words -- The Burroughs Effect / Anne Waldman -- Root Face.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:This volume includes original pieces by the most respected scholars, artists, and archivists working on William S. Burroughs today, as well as an interview with Burroughs' biographer.
