Burroughs, William S. - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Goodman, Michael. William S. Burroughs: An Annotated Bibliography of His Works and Criticism. New York: Garland Publishing, 1975, 96 p.

Comprehensive primary and secondary bibliography to 1974.

CRITICISM

Acker, Kathy. “William Burroughs's Realism.” In Bodies of Work, pp. 1-5. London: Serpent's Tail, 1997.

Observes that in his novels, “Burroughs saw the society around him so clearly, he announced the future. Writing that seemed radical when it appeared today looks like journalism. In other words: today in the United States, we are living in the worlds of Burroughs's novel.”

Eburne, Jonathan Paul. “Trafficking in the Void: Burroughs, Kerouac, and the Consumption of Otherness.” Modern Fiction Studies 43, no. 1 (spring 1997): 53-92.

Examines elements of social and political subversion in Naked Lunch and Jack Kerouac's The...

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