With William Burroughs
Subtitle: A Report From the Bunker
Edition: Rev Sub edition
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: November 15, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780312147679
Subjects: Fiction; Novelists, American; Burroughs, William - Prose & Criticism; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Literary; Biography/Autobiography; Interviews; Burroughs, William S.,; Burroughs, William S; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; Authorship; 1914-; 20th century
Description: Burroughs, the eccentric, brilliant artist who burned the bridge with logic and wrote the classic Naked Lunch, has a court recorder in Victor Bockris. Bockris has collected into a cogent whole the man's most brilliant moments of conversation, thinking, and interview repartee.

This fascinating material, gleaned from the fertile time at Burroughs's New York headquarters, the Bunker (which was located on the Bowery, three blocks from CBGB), encompasses the years 1974 to 1980, and also includes a 1991 Burroughs interview from Interview magazine. The Beats' devotion to subjective experience has left readers with a profound amount of objective material to analyze and debate. Choice public and private utterances, hallucinatory and prescient diatribes such as these, remain rich sources of literary history. As Americans we find the Beats' approach to life romantic, even heroic. Tearing the walls down in the name of freedom and spirituality strikes a particularly pilgrimesque chord.

With William Burroughs: A Report from the Bunker is a fascinating compendium of Burroughs-speak, so complete it can be considered a credo.