Paperback, 472 pages
English language
Published 1993 by Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA.
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A dozen or so letters to Jack Kerouac, several to Paul Bowles, Neal Cassaday and others, but the overwhelming bulk are to Allen Ginsberg. From the back cover: "Beginning as surprisingly formal notes from the road to his friends Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, the letters gradually deepen in substance and style. Then, in Tangier, comes a dramatic shift in voice and vision [culminating] in the explosive, distinctive letters that will become NAKED LUNCH. Letters were lifelines for Burroughs the outcast and works in progress for Burroughs the writer . . . ."
Subjects
- Burroughs, William S., 1914- -- Correspondence.
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence.