Will Self's "Junk Mail" (1995)

London, England: Bloomsbury (book, essays, reviews, comics, 1st), 1995.
7.75" x 5.5" x 1.38", 402 pages, hardcover without dust jacket as issued, ISBN 0-7475-2063-1.

Junk Mail by Will Self, a compilation of essays, features, reviews, interviews, and comics by Will Self. Published by Bloomsbury (London) in 1995.

There are many references to William S. Burroughs within "Part One: On Drugs", including at least five Burroughs-centered essays:

• "Junk Mail," pp. 3-6, a review of the Oliver Harris-edited Letters of William S. Burroughs 1945-1959 – published in the Independent in August 1993.
• "The Literary Monkey," pp. 7-10, a review of William S. Burroughs Junky – published in the Sunday Times in May 1993.
• "The Naked Tea," pp. 49-56, a review and discussion of the David Cronenberg film adaptation of William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch – published in the Guardian in April 1992.
• "Junking the Image," pp. 57-62, an essay on Burroughs, drugs, and the Sixties – published in the Guardian in February 1994.
• "Fixing Up a Vinyl Solution," pp. 74-82, on Burroughs' Spare Ass Annie & Other Tales, recorded with The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy – published in Modern Review, October 1993.

Contents: 

• Introduction and Acknowledgments
• Part One: On Drugs:
• Junk Mail
• The Literary Monkey
• New Crack City
• Mushrooms Galore
• Reeling and Writhing
• Let Us Intoxicate
• Strike and Crack
• Drugs and the Law's Pursuit of Virtue
• Inside Her Majesty's Powder Keg
• The Naked Tea
• Junking the Image
• Street Legal
• Fixing Up a Vinyl Solution
• Drug Dealer by Appointment to Her Majesty's Government
• Part Two: On Other Things:
• Humour 
• Off the Box
• Island Life
• Eight Miles High
• Slack Attack
• Man Enough to Have People Operate on Your Penis
• Mad About Motorways
• Book Reviews
• Where Did I Go Wrong?
• Three Dots to Heaven
• B and I
• The Book of the Film
• The Burnt-out Shells of Men
• Not a Great Decade to Be Jewish
• Couch Surfing
• Catch-23
• Features
• A Little Cottage Industry
• The Valley of the Corn Dollies
• Dealing with the Devil
• Do You Believe in the Westway?
• On the Edge of Blackness
• Profiles 
• Thomas Szasz: Shrinking from Psychiatry
• Damien Hirst: A Steady Iron-Hard Jet
• Tim Willocks: Size Matters
• Martin Amis: The Misinformation
• Bret Easton Ellis: The Rules of Repulsion
• Conversations
• J. G. Ballard
• Martin Amis