Eric Mottram's Revised/Expanded "William Burroughs: The Algebra of Need" (1977)

London, England: Marion Boyars (book, essay, bibliography), 1977.
8.75" x 5.625" x 1", 282 pages, hardcover with dust-jacket, ISBN 0-7145-2562-6.

William Burroughs: The Algebra of Need, by Eric Mottram, as published in an expanded format by Marion Boyars (London, England) in 1977. Introduction by John Fletcher. The book is in two parts, of which the first constitutes the text of the original edition published by Intrepid Press in 1971.

A bibliography at the end contains not only a list of Burroughs texts in book and periodical form, but also a bibliography of authors referenced in the book.

Contents: 

• Introduction by John Fletcher
• Introduction by Eric Mottram
• Part One: 
• I (a Burroughs biography and earliest works)
• II (on the Cut-Up method and the "tetraology of novels")
• III (on The Naked Lunch)
• IV (on The Soft Machine)
• V (on The Ticket That Exploded)
• VI (on Dead Fingers Talk)
• VII (conclusion, on Burroughs' concerns)
• Part Two:
• VIII (the politics of Burroughs, The Job, and Scientology)
• IX (The Wild Boys)
• X (Exterminator!)
• XI (Cyclops, Malcolm Mc Neil, and Ah Pook Is Here)
• XII (cinema, The Last Words of Dutch Schultz, The Book of Breething)
• XIII (Burroughs' concerns, control)
• Selected Bibliography

External Links: 

• RealityStudio: Eric Mottram and The Algebra of Need