Softcover Edition of "Word Virus" (2000/2008)

New York City: Grove Press (book, anthology), 2000/2008.
9" x 6" x 1.5", 532 pages, softcover, ISBN 978-0-8021-3694-7.

Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader as published in softcover [shown: the 2008 2nd printing] by Grove Press (New York City) in 2000. This follows the 1998 hardcover edition, for which no softcover edition was released contemporaneously. Edited by James Grauerholz and Ira Silverberg, with an introduction by Ann Douglas. Designed by Laura Hammond Hough, with cover design by Evan Gaffney using a photograph of William S. Burroughs by Kate Simon. Unlike the hardcover edition, the softcover edition does not include a CD.

What makes the softcover edition interesting is that James Grauerholz edited further after the 1998 hardcover edition. As noted by the astute Jeff Taylor in the Facebook "Burroughs & Associates" group, Grauerholz's epilogue is significantly edited in this edition compared to the 1998 edition. 

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Contents: 

• Ira Silverberg: Editor's Preface
• Ann Douglas: "Punching a Hole in the Big Lie: The Achievement of William S. Burroughs"
• Editor's Note:
• The Name Is Burroughs (1914–44):
• James Grauerholz: "The Name Is Burroughs"
• William S. Burroughs:
• from The Adding Machine: "The Name Is Burroughs" (excerpt, 1973)
• "Personal Magnetism" (1929)
• "Twilight's Last Gleamings" (with Kells Elvins, 1938)
• "And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks" (excerpt, with Jack Kerouac, 1945)
• A Hard-Boiled Reporter (1945–53):
• James Grauerholz: "A Hard-Boiled Reporter" 
• William S. Burroughs:
• from Junky:
• "Prologue" (1952)
• "Selections" (1950–52)
• from Queer:
• "Selections" (1951–52)
• "Epilogue: Mexico City Returns" (excerpts, 1953)
• "Introduction" (excerpts, 1985)
• from The Yagé Letters:
• "Selections" (1953)
• "Roosevelt After Inauguration" (May 1953)
• Interzone (1954–59):
• James Grauerholz: "Interzone"
• William S. Burroughs:
• from Interzone (1988 anthology):
• "International Zone" (1955)
• "Lee's Journals" (excerpts, 1955)
• "Spare Ass Annie" (1955)
• "Ginsberg Notes" (excerpts, 1955)
• "WORD" (excerpts, 1957–58)
• from Naked Lunch (1955–59):
• "I Can Feel the Heat Closing In"
• "The Black Meat"
• "Hospital" (excerpts)
• "The Market" (excerpts)
• "Islam, Inc." (excerpts)
• "Ordinary Men and Women" (excerpt: "The Talking Asshole")
•  "Atrophied Preface" 
• "Quick..."
• The Cut-Ups (1960–67):
• James Grauerholz: "The Cut-Ups"
• William S. Burroughs:
• from The Soft Machine (1957–60):
• "Dead on Arrival"
• "Case of the Celluloid Kali"
• "The Mayan Caper"
• "Where You Belong"
• "Uranian Willy"
• from The Ticket That Exploded (1957–61):
• "'see the action, B.J.?'"
• "do you love me?"
• "operation rewrite"
• "call the old doctor twice?"
• "the invisible generation"
• from Nova Express (1961–63):
• "Last Words"
• "Prisoners, Come Out"
• "Pry Yourself Loose and Listen"
• "So Pack Your Ermines"
• "Shift Coordinate Points"
• "Coordinate Points"
• "Short Count"
• "Twilight's Last Gleaming"
• "Pay Color"
• "Pay Off the Marks?"
• "Clom Fliday"
• Inspector Lee: Nova Heat (1964–84):
• James Grauerholz: "Inspector Lee: Nova Heat"
• William S. Burroughs:
• from The Burroughs File:
• "Ancient Face Gone Out" (1963)
• "The Beginning Is Also the End" (1963)
• "Who Is the Third That Walks Beside You" (1964)
• "The Last Post Danger Ahead" (1964)
• "Last Awning Flaps on the Pier" (1964)
• "St. Louis Return" (1965)
• from The Third Mind (with Brion Gysin):
• "The Exterminator" (1962–65)
• "The Future of the Novel" (1964)
• "Notes on These Pages" (1964)
• "Technical Deposition of the Virus Power" (1965)
• "In Present Time" (1965)
• from The Job:
• "The American Non-Dream" (1969)
• "Institute of Advanced Sexual Studies: Academy Bulletin No. 18" (1969)
• "Electronic Revolution" (1970–71)
• "Control" (1970)
• from The Adding Machine:
• "It Is Necessary to Travel..." (1969)
• "Remembering Jack Kerouac" (1969)
• from The Burroughs File: "The Bay of Pigs" (1972)
• from Roosevelt After Inauguration and Other Atrocities:
• "When Did I Stop Wanting to Be President?" (1975)
• "Roosevelt After Inauguration: A New Introduction" (1975)
• from The Adding Machine:
• "A Word to the Wise Guy" (1975)
• "The Limits of Control" (1975)
• "Les Voleurs" (1976)
• "Immortality" (1976)
• "The Johnson Family" (excerpts, 1977)
• Queer Utopia (1968–73):
• James Grauerholz: "Queer Utopia"
• William S. Burroughs:
• from The Wild Boys (1968–69):
• "And Bury the Bread Deep in a Sty" 
• "The Penny Arcade Peep Show"
• "'Mother and I Would Like to Know'"
• "The Wild Boys Smile"
• from Exterminator!:
• "'Exterminator!'" (1966)
• "The Discipline of DE" (1970)
• "'What Washington? What Orders?'" (1972)
• "From Here to Eternity" (1972)
• "Seeing Red" (1972)
• "The 'Priest' They Called Him" (1967)
• "Cold Lost Marbles" (1972)
• The Red Night Trilogy (1973–87):
• James Grauerholz: "The Red Night Trilogy"
• William S. Burroughs:
• from Cities of the Red Night (1974–80):
• "Fore!"
• "Invocation"
• "Politics Here Is Death"
• "Harbor Point"
• "The Private Asshole"
• "Lettre de Marque" (excerpt)
• "Port Roger" (excerpt)
• "Cities of the Red Night"
• "We Are Here Because of You"
• "Return to Port Roger"
• from The Place of Dead Roads (selections, 1977–83):
• "Shoot-Out in Boulder"
• "'For three days Kim had camped on the mesa top...'"
• "'Kim has never doubted the possibility of an afterlife...'"
• "'Kim got off the stage at Cottonwood Junction'"
• "'Look at this picture from Tom's collection...'"
• "'Kim recruits a band of flamboyant and picturesque outlaws...'"
• "'Killed in the Manhattan Shoot-Out... April 3, 1984...'"
• "'William Seward Hall...'"
• "'Kim sees his life as a legend...'"
• "'Guy Graywood arrived from New York...'"
• "'Kim spent three years in Paris...'"
• "'The guide traces the area on the map...'"
• "'So in what guise shall he return to the New World...'"
• "'Kim is heading north for Boulder...'"
• from The Western Lands (selections, 1982–86):
• "'The old writer lived in a boxcar by the river...'"
• "'Joe the Dead lowered the rifle...'"
• "'Neferti is eating breakfast...'"
• "The Door Dog is a limited artifact...'"
• "'Consider the One God Universe...'"
• "'The Road to the Western Lands...'"
• "'Neferti is dropping his Ego, his Me...'"
• "'June 6, 1985. Friday. I am in Iran someplace...'"
• "'In present-day Egypt...'"
• "'The Land of the Dead: a long street with trees...'"
• "The Wishing Machine"
• "'It was a hectic, portentous time in Paris, in 1959...'"
• Late Work (1984–97):
• James Grauerholz: "Late Work"
• William S. Burroughs:
• from The Cat Inside (1982–86): "Selections"
• from My Education: A Book of Dreams (1986–94): "Selections"
• James Grauerholz: "Epilogue"
• Selected Bibliography