"Burroughs Unbound" (2022)

New York City: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc. (book, anthology, essays), 2022.
9.25" x 6.25" x 1.25", 437 pages, hardcover without dust-jacket as issued, ISBN 978-1-5013-6218-7.

Burroughs Unbound: William S. Burroughs and the Perfromance of Writing, edited by S. E. Gontarski and published by Bloomsbury (New York City and London) in 2022.  This is an anthology of essays on William S. Burroughs, prompted by research into the archive of Burroughs materials at Florida State University (the François Bucher archives).

The appendices contain multiple reproductions of correspondence and materials related to the Bucher archive.

This copy was brought with me to the EBSN (European Beat Studies Network) conference on Cut-Ups in Paris, September 2023, where I met the editor Stan Gontarski and a number of contributors. This copy is inscribed by Gontarski, and signed at contribution by Oliver Harris and by Tomasz Stompor.

Contents: 

• List of Figures
• Acknowledgments
• S. E. Gontarski: "Burroughs Unbound: An Atrophied Introduction"
• Part I – Theory:
• S. E. Gontarski: "Weaponized Aesthetics and Dystopian Modernism: Cut-ups, Playbacks, Pick-ups, and the 'Limits of Control' from Burroughs to Deleuze"
• Nathan Moore: "Pay It All Back: Paranoid Writing/Writing Paranoia"
• Ash Connell-Gonzalez: "The Tension of Possibility: Reading Closure in Ah Pook is Here through the Multiframe"
• Allen Hibbard: "Fluidity and Fixity in William S. Burroughs' Writing: The Text Will Not Hold"
• Part II – Texts:
• Oliver Harris: "Making Dead Fingers Talk"
• Jed Birmingham: "Whale Drek: The Lost Footnotes of the Olympia Press"
• Nick Sturm: "'There Are No Typographical Errors in This Edition': Burroughs' Textual Infection of the New York School"
• Tomasz Stompor: "'I Spent Months in the Morgue': William S. Burroughs' Appropriation of Time Magazine"
• Alex Wermer-Colan: "Digitizing the Word Hoard: Remediating Countercultural Archives after the American Century"
• Rona Cran: "Mess, Taste, and Gastronomic Criticism: Digesting Naked Lunch"
• Part III – Performance:
• John M. Bennett: "Performance in the Work of William S. Burroughs"
• Barry J. Faulk: "Burroughs, Bowie, and the Reshaping of the Counterculture: William S. Burroughs Meets 'Ziggy Stardust'"
• Blake Stricklin: "All the News Not Fit to Print"
• Appendix A: "Evergreen on the Air: Barney Rosset on Censorship and Publishing Naked Lunch"
• Appendix B: "Lectures on the Virus, May 3–8, 1974, Burroughs Archive at Ohio State University"
• Appendix C: "Burroughs Manifest, Burroughs Archive at Florida State University, September 12, 1980, purchase"
• Appendix D: "Supplemental Bucher Burroughs Purchases, December 12, 1990"
• Appendix E: "Burroughs and Bucher, Correspondence and Notes 1978-9, 1984"
• Appendix F: "'A 30-Year Wait. A 16-Mile Journey.' The Story of the 'Lost' Burroughs Archive at Florida State University"
• List of Contributors
• Index