{"product_id":"9780872861527","title":"The Burroughs File","description":"\u003cp\u003eTrenchant writings by that sardonic \"hombre invisible,\" William Seward Burroughs, perpetrator of \u003cb\u003eNaked Lunch\u003c\/b\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 White Subway, Cobblestone Gardens, and The Retreat Diaries, this collection delineates Burroughs' comprehensive world-view and his \"insurrectionary sense of America's underside,\" as Tom Carson epitomized it in The Village Voice.\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: The Book of Hours, John Brady's Book, and The Old Farmer's Almanac.\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.\" — \u003cb\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.\" —Jack Kerouac\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Burroughs (1915-1997) is widely recognized as one of the most innovative writers of the twentieth century. His books include: \u003cb\u003eJunky\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eNaked Lunch\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe Soft Machine\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eCities of the Red Night\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"City Lights Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008822722800,"sku":"9780872861527","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780872861527_p0.jpg?v=1763842069","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780872861527","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}