William S. Burroughs at the front: critical reception, 1959-1989

Points of intersection : an overview of William S. Burroughs and his critics / Robin Lydenberg and Jennie Skerl The book burners and sweet sixteen / John Ciardi Anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death / Alan Ansen Burroughs' Naked lunch / Mary McCarthy UGH ... / John Willett Responses to "UGH ..." / John Calder ... [et al.] The subtracting machine : the work of William Burroughs / Ihab Hassan Notes on Burroughs / Marshall McLuhan Objections to William Burroughs / David Lodge The algebra of need / Theodore Solotaroff William Burroughs and the literature of addiction / Frank D. McConnell Rub out the word / Tony Tanner He's just wild about writing / Alfred Kazin The end of the body : radical space in Burroughs / Cary Nelson

Listening to Burroughs' voice / Neal Oxenhandler

The broken circuit / John Tytell

On The last words of Dutch Schultz / Eric Mottram

"Cut-ups" : a Synema of the text / Anne Friedberg

Beckett, Proust, and Burroughs and the perils of "Image warfare" / Nicholas Zurbrugg

Freedom through fantasy in the recent novels of William S. Burroughs / Jennie Skerl

Burroughs' theater of illusion : Cities of the red night / Steven Shaviro

Burroughs' western / David Glover

The postmodern anus : parody and utopia in two recent novels by William Burroughs / Wayne Pounds

'El hombre invisible' / Robin Lydenberg

On Burroughs' art / James Grauerholz

Cut-up closure : the return to narrative / Oliver C.G. Harris

My purpose is to write for the space age / William S. Burroughs.