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Fifty years ago, Norman Mailer asserted, "William Burroughs is the sole American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius." Few since took such literary risks, developed such individual political or religious ideas, or spanned such an array of media. Burroughs composed novels, memoirs, specialized guides, and poetry. He coated, made collages, got thousands of images, produced thousands of hours of experimental recordings, acted in movies, and registered more CDs than most rock and roll rings. Burroughs was the initial cult body of the Defeat Movement, and with the publication of his novel Naked Lunchtime, which was originally forbidden for obscenity, he became a master to the 60s junior counterculture. In Call Me Burroughs, biographer and Defeat historian Barry A long way reveals the first full-length biography of Burroughs to be publicized in a quarter hundred years - and the first one to chronicle the last ten years of Burroughs's life and analyze his long-term ethnical legacy. Written with the full support of the Burroughs real estate and pulling from countless interviews with information like Allen Ginsberg, Lucien Carr, and Burroughs himself, Call Me personally Burroughs is a rigorously researched biography that finally reaches the heart of its notoriously mercurial subject.
