Call me Burroughs

Barry Miles. First edition, first printing. Dust Jacket: Near Fine. An unclipped jacket designed by Catherine Casalino. Hardcover: Near Fine. NY: Twelve/Hachette Group, 2014. Black cloth with silver lettering on spine. No writing or markings in this solid book, 718 pp. Includes some great black/white photos, including the Beats.

Fifty years ago, Norman Mailer noted, "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."

"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."