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ISBN-13: | 9781455511945 |
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Publisher: | Grand Central Publishing |
Publication date: | 01/28/2014 |
Sold by: | Hachette Digital, Inc. |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 736 |
File size: | 4 MB |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Book 1 An Education
Chapter 1
1 St. Louis Toodle-oo 9
Chapter 2
1 The Green Reindeer 20
2 The Autobiography of a Wolf 26
Chapter 3
1 Kells Elvins 32
2 Meet the Johnson Family 36
Chapter 4
1 "I Know What's Best for Boys!" 41
2 Billy Bradshinkel 49
Chapter 5
1 Harvard 51
Chapter 6
1 Mitteleuropa 60
2 Mrs. Burroughs 63
3 Enter Dr. Benway 67
Chapter 7
1 Count Alfred Korzybski 72
2 Jack Anderson 74
3 St. Louis Return 78
4 A Very Private Pilot 81
Chapter 8
1 Mrs. Murphy's Rooming House 86
Book 2 The Beat Generation
Chapter 9
1 Greenwich Village 1943 95
2 Derangement of All the Senses 98
Chapter 10
1 The Gathering Storm 107
2 A Death in the Family 108
Chapter 11
1 New Romantics 114
2 An Alternative Education 117
3 Junk 121
Chapter 12
1 Joan 128
2 The Wolfeans and the Non-Wolfeans 134
Book 3 Down Mexico Way
Chapter 13
1 Farmer Bill 147
Chapter 14
1 Burroughs in East Texas 156
2 Texas Justice 164
Chapter 15
1 The Big Easy 167
Chapter 16
1 Return to the Valley 177
Chapter 17
1 Mexico City 182
2 Back on Junk 187
3 The Mexican Dream Unravels 191
4 In Search of Yagé 198
Chapter 18
1 The Low Shot 205
Chapter 19
1 Marker Comes Through 218
Chapter 20
1 Yagé Found 226
2 Into Peru 235
Chapter 21
1 Reunion in New York 240
2 When in Rome 248
Book 4 The Classic Stations of the Earth
Chapter 22
1 Bill and the Boys 251
2 Bar la Mar Chica 256
Chapter 3
1 Morphine Minnie 260
2 Kells in Morocco 264
Chapter 24
1 Looking for Ritchie 268
2 The Socco Chico Set 270
3 The Talking Asshole 273
4 Remittance Men at Large 277
Chapter 25
1 Dr. Dent 284
2 Villa Delirium 288
3 "The Jihad Jitters" 294
Chapter 26
1 More Orgones 298
2 Interzone 301
Chapter 27
1 Freeland 309
Book 5 The City of Light
Chapter 28
1 The Beat Hotel 315
2 A Friendship Renewed 318
3 Librairie Anglaise and the Mistral 325
Chapter 29
1 Enter Jacques Stern 330
2 Louis-Ferdinand Céline 333
Chapter 30
1 Brion Gysin 339
2 Psychic Discoveries 342
Chapter 31
1 The Naked Lunch 349
2 Busted 355
3 Ian Sommerville 357
Chapter 32
1 The Writing of Silence 361
2 Cut-Ups 362
Book 6 London Town
Chapter 33
1 The Western Suburbs 369
2 Mikey Portman 377
3 L'Homme Invisible 381
Chapter 34
1 The Soft Machine 384
2 "Word Falling-Photo Falling" 386
3 Paul Bowles 389
Chapter 35
1 The Psychedelic Summer 392
2 An American Interlude 397
3 New York 400
Chapter 36
1 The Edinburgh Literary Festival 402
2 The Ticket That Exploded 406
Chapter 37
1 Billy Burroughs Jr. 414
2 Living in the Marshan 419
3 Cut-Ups, Columns, and Grids 421
4 Television with Dan Farson 423
5 The Loteria Building 426
6 Return to Villa Delirium 428
Book 7 Burlington Billy
Chapter 38
1 "St. Louis Return" 433
2 On Set 438
Chapter 39
1 The Rushmore 444
2 Chappaqua Continues 447
3 Montagu Square 450
4 Groovy Bob 452
Chapter 40
1 Dalmeny Court 454
2 Palm Beach and Lexington 460
Chapter 41
1 Operating Thetan 465
Chapter 42
1 Chicago 1968 475
2 Back in Blighty 479
Chapter 43
1 Eater the Seventies 485
2 The Rolling Stones 488
Chapter 44
1 John Brady 497
Book 8 The Prodigal Son Returns
Chapter 45
1 James Winston Grauerholz 509
2 Ian's Death 520
Chapter 46
1 Billy Jr. 523
2 The Bunker 525
3 Junky 527
Chapter 47
1 Rocky Mountain Horror Show 529
2 Horror Hospital 534
3 Nova Convention 537
4 Cities of the Red Night 540
Chapter 48
1 New York Days 546
2 Heroin 550
3 "We Must Hold the Bunker at All Costs" 553
Book 9 Return to Roots
Chapter 49
1 Tornado Alley 563
2 Painting with Guns 569
Chapter 50
1 Learnard Avenue 575
2 Brion 584
Chapter 51
1 Painting 595
2 Last Boy 601
3 Opera 603
4 Folders 605
5 Aliens 607
Chapter 52
1 The Quotidian Life 609
2 Kurt Cobain 619
3 "I Had Not Thought Death Had Undone So Many" 623
Endwords 629
Notes 637
Bibliography 675
Index 693