"The Travel Agency Is on Fire" (2015)

New York City: The City University of New York (CUNY) (book, primary, 1st), 2015.
9" x 5.75", stapled wraps, 58 pages, ISBN 978-0-988945-5-6.

The Travel Agency Is on Fire, a collection of literary Cut-Ups by William S. Burroughs from the archives at Ohio State University's Rare Books & Manuscripts Library and The New York Public Library's Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. Edited and introduced by Alex Wermer-Colan. 

This reproduces Burroughs' painting "Thick Pages #8" before the introduction.  

First printing, received with the other Series V releases, including Langston Hughes, Kathy Acker, and Jean Sénac.

Contents: 

• Alex Wermer-Colan: Acknowledgments
• William S. Burroughs: "Thick Pages #8" (painting, 1990)
• Alex Wermer-Colan: Introduction
• William S. Burroughs: The Travel Agency Is on Fire:
• William Shakespeare:
• "Cut up with Shakespeare 1960 Empress Hotel"
• "SELECTIONS FROM CUT UP OF SELECTIONS FROM WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE"
• "CUT FROM OUR EVER LIVING POET WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE"
• "1960 Empress Hotel"
• British Romantic Poets:
• "cut up English poets Wordsworth, Byron etc."
• Arthur Rimbaud:
• "CUT FROM ARTHUR RIMBAUD POEMES THRU WILLIAM LEE BURROUGHS"
• "PARIS REPOPULATES..."
• "CUTS TWIST WORD LINES ARTHUR RIMBAUD WILLIAM BURROUGHS. MR.."
• "DOUBLE CUT WORD LINES ARTHUR RIMBAUD WILLIAM BURROUGHS. MR---"
• bien apres..."
• "SONG CUT FROM ANIBASIS JOHN PERSE ILLUMINATIONS RIMBAUD..."
• St. John Perse:
• "Came such a one trailing vines..."
• "Cut up St. John Perse and other poems 51 Lancaster Terrace 1962"
• "CUT UP OF CHRONI QUE BY SAINT JOHN PERSE:"
• F. Scott Fitzgerald:
• "cut up Science Fiction, Fitzgerald,"
• James Joyce:
• "Finegins Wake cut ups I mean as inexplicable"
• "Vienna auf der unglaubisches morning..."
• Jean Genet:
• "Cut ups with Jean Genet and writing in his style  6 Pages"
• J. D. Salinger: 
• "cut up with The Catcher in the Rye / J. D. Salinger / 1964"
• Jack Kerouac:
• "1971 / Jack Kerouac come in..."
• "1971 / hunger of fruitful subrubs..."
• "1971 / A writer in other people..."
• "1971 / I am speaking of the roles..."
• Anthony Burgess:
• "The Travel Agency Is On Fire"
• Biographical Notes
• Lost & Found