Don't Hide the Madness: William S. Burroughs in Conversation with Allen Ginsberg (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781941110706)

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 that Burroughs believed had driven his work as a writer. The conversation is interspersed with photographs by Ginsberg revealing Burroughs's daily activities from his painting studio to the shooting range. DON'T HIDE THE MADNESS presents an important, hitherto unpublished primary document of the Beat Generation.

Author: William S. Burroughs
ISBN-10: 1941110703
ISBN-13: 9781941110706
Publisher: Three Rooms Press
Language: English
Published: 10/16/2018
Pages: 364
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/06/2018
Library Journal 09/15/2018 pg. 55