Burroughs Now
Volume 41, Number 3
March-April 2020
Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers.
Blake Stricklin’s Introduction to Focus: Burroughs Now
Paul Ardoin’s “The Local Rashomon”
Alex Wermer-Colan’s “The Order and the Material is the Message”
S. E. Gontarski’s “William S. Burroughs and The Posthuman”
Barry J. Faulk’s “A Matter of Electricity: William Burroughs and Rock Music”
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