Larry McCafferty's "Across the Wounded Galaxies" (1990)

Urbana, Illinois, US.: University of Illinois Press (book, anthology, interviews, 1st), 1990.
9.25" x 6.25" x 1.125", 267 pages, hardcover in dust-jacket, ISBN 0-252-01692-0.

Across the Wounded Galaxies: Interviews with Contemporary American Science Fiction Writers, edited by Larry McCafferty and published by University of Illinois Press (Urbana and Chicago, Illinois, US) in 1990.

"An Interview with William S. Burroughs" by Jim McMenamin and Larry McCafferty is at pages 31-53.  This is accompanied by a photo of William S. Burroughs by Bob Adelman.

A quote from William S. Burroughs' The Soft Machine leads this book "– cross the wounded galaxies we intersect, poison of dead sun in your brain slowly fading – Migrants of ape in gasoline crack of history, explosive bio-advance out of space to neon –"

Burroughs is also quoted on the rear cover: "The frontier's gone, and with it disappeared all those opportunities for taking on a role that really means something. Outer space is the only place that's going to create new roles..."

Shoaf IV.141.

Contents: 

• Introduction
• Gregory Benford (interview)
• William S. Burroughs (interview)
• Octavia E. Butler (interview)
• Samuel R. Delany (interview)
• Thomas M. Disch (interview)
• William Gibson (interview)
• Ursula K. Le Guin (interview)
• Joanna Russ (interview)
• Bruce Sterling (interview)
• Gene Wolfe (interview)
• Index