Don't Hide the Madness: William S. Burroughs in Conversation with Allen Ginsberg

by William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Steven Taylor

Book Overview

Two seminal figures of the Beat movement, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, discuss literary influences and personal history in a never-before-published three-day conversation following the release of the David Cronenberg film of Burroughs' classic novel Naked Lunch . The visit coincided with the shamanic exorcism of the demon that Burroughs believed had caused him to fatally shoot his common law wife, Joan Vollmer Burroughs, in 1951--the event...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1941110703
• ISBN13: 9781941110706
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Three Rooms Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.1"