Table of Contents
Introduction vii
The Name Is Burroughs 1
My Own Business 18
Les Voleurs 23
Beauty and the Bestseller 27
A Word to the Wise Guy 34
Technology of Writing 39
Creative Reading 46
Ten Years and a Billion Dollars 59
It Belongs to the Cucumbers 65
The Fall of Art 75
Hemingway 81
The Great Gatsby 87
The Johnson Family 91
Bugger the Queen 95
Civilian Defense 100
Sexual Conditioning 107
On Freud and the Unconscious 111
On Coincidence 121
Paris Please Stay the Same 129
God's Own Medicine 133
The Last Junky 138
The Limits of Control 143
The Hundred Year Plan 149
Women: A Biological Mistake? 153
Immortality 156
It Is Necessary to Travel… 168
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 169
The Great Glut 177
POP and the Heroids 179
Mind War 182
In the Interests of National Security 185
Notes from Class Transcript 189
Who Did What Where and When? 191
An Epitaph 194
My Experiences with Wilhelm Reich's Orgone Box 197
How You Stop Smoking 200
The Maugham Curse 204
Remembering Jack Kerouac 209
Beckett and Proust 216
Graham Greene 221
Cutting Up Characters 224
A Review of the Reviewers 227
Light Reading 232
