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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA landmark in scholarship. . . . Highly recommended.
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Collage of Time Harvard Lampoon Parody, William S. Burroughs, facsimile, 1965
Introduction: Cutting Up the Century / Alex Wermer-Colan and Joan Hawkins
Biographical Timeline
Metamorphosis
1. Cutting Up the Century / Oliver Harris
The Reality Studio
SECTION I: ICON/VIRAL
Deposition of the Ugly Spirit, William S. Burroughs, typescript, Villa Muniria, Summer 1961
2. Burroughs and Biography: An Interview with Barry Miles / Oliver Harris
Cutting Up the Critics, typescripts, 1962–64
3. The Nova Convention: Celebrating the Burroughs of Downtown New York / Kristen Galvin
Nova Convention Poster, Sylvere Lotringer, facsimile, 1978
4. The Disembodied Fry: William S. Burroughs and Vocal Performance / Landon Palmer
Cut-up with Limericks, William S. Burroughs, typescript, 1971
5. William S. Burroughs' Spirit of Collaboration / Allen Hibbard
SECTION II: SPACE/TIME
6. Burroughs and the Biosphere, 1974–1997 / Kathelin Gray
The Permissive Society, William S. Burroughs, typescript, 1971
7. Beat Regionalism: Burroughs in Mexico, Burroughs in Women's Studies / Aaron Nyerges
Collage of Newsclippings, William S. Burroughs, facsimile, 1970
8. Interference Zones: William Burroughs in the Interstices of Globalization / Timothy S. Murphy
On China
9. Cut-Up City: William S. Burroughs' "St. Louis Return" / Eric Sandweiss
SECTION III: WORD/IMAGE
On Addiction
10. William S. Burroughs' Imperial Decadence: Subversive Literature in the Cynical Age of the American Century / Alex Wermer-Colan
Opium Collage, William S. Burroughs, typescript, Dream Rat Calendar, Monday Bellevue 4, 1970
11. Naked Lunch and the Art of Incompleteness: The Use of Genre in Burroughs' Book and Cronenberg's Film / Joshua Vasquez
The Fall of Art
12. Queer Outlaws Losing: The Betrayal of the Outlaw Underground in The Place of Dead Roads / Kurt Hemmer
Thinking in Colors
13. Rimbaud and Genet, Burroughs' Favorite Mirrors / Véronique Lane
SECTION IV: CUT/FOLD
On the Cut-Up
14. Cross the Wounded Galaxies: A Conversation about the Cut-Up Trilogy / Davis Schneiderman and Oliver Harris
The Photo Collage: Watergate
15. "Word FallingPhoto Falling": William S. Burroughs and the Word as Written Image / Blake Stricklin
Cutting Up Scientology
16. Mutable Forms: The Proto-Ecology of William Burroughs' Early Cut-Ups / Chad Weidner
SECTION V: BODY/SPIRIT
The Wild Boys, A Pornographic Screenplay
17. William S. Burroughs, Transcendence Porn, and The Ticket That Exploded / Katharine Streip
Dream Note on Indictment for Murdering Joan, William S. Burroughs
18. Gender Trouble: A Critical Roundtable on Burroughs and Gender / Ann Douglas, Anne Waldman, and Regina Weinreich
Cutting Up Last Words
19. The Burroughs Effect / Anne Waldman
Root Face, William S. Burroughs, facsimile, 1987
Index
