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ISBN 0-670-81347-8 (US hbk)
short stories, notes, journals, autobiographical sketches, slipstream
Early manuscripts which later became the novel Naked Lunch . Edited by James Grauerholz.
"This manuscript lay forgotten for twenty-five years, until Bill Morgan, who was cataloging Allen Ginsberg's Colombia deposit, came across it in 1984. At Ginsberg's suggestion, a copy was sent to Burroughs in Kansas, where he was able to oversee the editing of the thematically and historically linked materials gathered together in this volume, which represents the first publication of 'WORD', essentially in its entirety. This chapter was apparently typed by Kerouac, and in certain instances words that were clearly misread have been changed, but it is otherwise faithful to the 1958 text". --James Grauerholz.
"Find I cannot write without endless parenthesis (a parenthesis indicates the simultaneity of past, present and emergent future). I exist in the present moment. I can't and won't pretend I am dead. This novel is not posthumous. A 'novel' is something finished, that is, dead --
"I am trying, like Klee, to create something that will have a life of its own, that can put me in real danger, a danger which I willingly take on myself ." --William S.Burroughs (from Interzone ).
"I will send along about 100 pages of Interzone, it is coming so fast I can hardly get it down, and shakes me like a great black wind through the bones". --William S.Burroughs (in a letter to Allen Ginsberg, 20 December 1956).
"I am selecting, editing and transcribing letters and notes from the past year, some typed, some indecipherable longhand, for Chapter II of my novel on Interzone, tentatively entitled Ignorant Armies .
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Unofficial William Burroughs Homepage
(another site worth a look-see)
The William S.Burroughs Files
(check Malcolm Humes' excellent links to all things Burroughs at his InterNetWebZone)