Penguin Books Ltd. Trade Paperback. Light shelf wear. Rubbed edges and corners. Binding still tight and text unmarked. More

Fantasy Records, 1959-01-01 05:00:00. Vinyl. Good vinyl in mildly worn sleeve. More

Hyperion Books (Adult Trd Pap), August 1994. Trade Paperback. With the premiere of David Cronenberg's adaptation of Burrows' Naked Lunch, a new wave of fascination has been generated for this fierce anti-establishment crusader--the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed of genius (Norman Mailer). Photos. More

Picador, March 2004. Trade Paperback. From the bestselling author of" Running with Scissors" comes "Dry" the hilarious, moving, and no less bizarre account of what happened next. You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants..... More

Penguin Group USA Inc, October 1985. Trade Paperback. Conspirators plot to explode a train carrying nerve gas. A perfect servant suddenly reveals himself to be the insidious Dr. Fu Manchu. Science-fantasy wars, racism, corporate capitalism, drug addiction, and various medical and psychiatric horrors all play their parts in this mosaiclike..... More

Grove Press, October 2012. Trade Paperback. Junk is not, like alcohol or a weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life. In his debut novel, Junky, Burroughs fictionalized his experiences using and peddling heroin and other drugs in the..... More

Pub Group West, December 1998. Hardcover. "Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader" brings together selections of Burroughs' most important and challenging work - beginning with his very early writing (including a chapter from his and Jack Kerouac's never-before-seen collaborative novel, "And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks" )..... More

Cambridge University Press, November 1989. Hardcover. Though the term "San Francisco Renaissance" is usually associated with the Beat movement, it was in reality a collage of different communities, often at odds with one another, whose agendas were social and political as much as aesthetic. These subcommunities provided important contexts for..... More

Grey Fox Pr, August 1977. Paper Back. Some fading, shelf wear to the cover. More

Harper & Row, January 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. A fine new collection of poems by Ginsberg that feature an important new work, the title poem White Shroud. First printing. Inscribed and dated (March 1987) on the title page to the New York actress Linda Dorff by Allen Ginsberg. On the..... More

Harpercollins, March 2000. Trade Paperback. Allen Ginsberg was one of the bravest and most admired poets of this century. Famous for energizing the Beat Generation literary movement upon his historic encounter with Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs in mid-century New York City, Ginsberg influenced several generations of writers..... More

Thunder's Mouth Pr, October 1997. Trade Paperback. Generally acknowledged to be the first Beat novel, go was originally published in 1952, five years before Kerouac's On the Road. John Clellon Holmes became the Beat Generation's chief chronicler.--Newsweek. More

Viking Adult, August 2007. Hardcover. Legions of youthful Americans have taken "On the Road" as a manifesto for rebellion and an inspiration to hit the road. But there is much more to the book than that. In "Why Kerouac Matters," John Leland embarks on a wry, insightful, and playful discussion..... More