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    The Ticket That Exploded

    By William S. Burroughs

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJun 28, 2012
    ISBN9780007397563
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    The Ticket That Exploded
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    William S. Burroughs

    William S. Burroughs was born in St. Louis in 1914. He is best-known work is 1959's Naked Lunch-which became the focus of a landmark 1962 Supreme Court decision that helped eliminate literary censorship in the United States. Described by Norman Mailer as one of America's few writers genuinely "possessed by genius," he died in 1997. His many other works include Junky and The Place of Dead Roads (Picador).

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      Just amazing--a glimpse inside the manifesto of The Rewrite Department with practical demonstrations throughout. The last 30 pages are mindblowingly good. A bit less sparkling in wit and black humor than The Soft Machine, but still a master class in postmodernity.