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First published in the United States of America by Grove Press an imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc. 2014 First published in Great Britain by Penguin Classics 2015
MEETINGOF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCEOF TECHNOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
THE MARKET
ORDINARY MENAND WOMEN
ISLAM INCORPORATEDANDTHE PARTIESOF INTERZONE
THE COUNTY CLERK
INTERZONE
THE EXAMINATION
HAVE YOU SEEN PANTOPON ROSE?
COKE BUGS
THE EXTERMINATOR DOES A GOOD JOB
THE ALGEBRA OF NEED
HAUSER AND O’BRIEN
ATROPHIED PREFACE
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ORIGINAL INTRODUCTIONS AND ADDITIONS BY THE AUTHOR
Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness [1960]
Post Script … Wouldn’t You? [1960]
Afterthoughts on a Deposition [1991]
Letter from a Master Addict to Dangerous Drugs [1956]
BURROUGHS TEXTS ANNEXED BY THE EDITORS
Editors’ Note by Barry Miles and James Grauerholz
Letter to Irving Rosenthal [1960]
The Death of Mel the Waiter [undated]
Outtakes: The Vigilante
Outtakes: The Rube
Outtakes: Benway
Outtakes: The Black Meat
Outtakes: Hospital
Outtakes: A.J.’s Annual Party
Outtakes: Islam Incorporated and the Parties of Interzone
Outtakes: The Examination
Outtakes: Coke Bugs
Outtakes: Hauser and O’Brien
Outtakes: Atrophied Preface
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William S. Burroughs was born in 1914 in St Louis. In work and in life Burroughs expressed a lifelong subversion of the morality, politics and economics of modern America. To escape those conditions, and in particular his treatment as a homosexual and a drug-user, Burroughs left his homeland in 1950, eventually living in Mexico City, Tangier, Paris and London. By the time of his death he was widely recognized as one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists of the twentieth century. His numerous books include Naked Lunch, Junky, Queer, Nova Express, Interzone, The Wild Boys, The Ticket That Exploded and The Soft Machine.
James Grauerholz was William Burroughs’s longtime manager and editor, and is executor of his estate. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas.
In addition to The Beat Hotel and Zappa, Barry Miles’s other works include William Burroughs: El Hombre Invisible, Allen Ginsberg: A Biography, and Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats, as well as Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now. His most recent book is William S. Burroughs: A Life.
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ORIGINAL INTRODUCTIONS AND ADDITIONS BY THE AUTHOR