"The Revised Boy Scout Manual" (2018)

Columbus, Ohio, US: Ohio State University Press (book, primary), 2018.
8.5" x 5.5" x 0.375", 117 pages, softcover, ISBN 978-0-8142-5489-9.

"The Revised Boy Scout Manual": An Electronic Revolution by William S. Burroughs, edited by Geoffrey D. Smith and John M. Bennett and published in softcover by the Ohio State University Press (Columbus, Ohio, US) in 2018. The afterword is by V. Vale of Re/Search. Cover design by Andrew Brozyna. Cover photographs of William S. Burroughs are by Kate Simon. Text design by Juliet Williams. 

As noted on the back cover, the Revised Boy Scout Manual is "about preparing for revolution and confronting institutionalized power ... a work Burroughs revisited many times, but which has never before been published in its complete form. Based primarily on recordings of a performance of the complete piece found in the archives at the OSU libraries, as well as various incomplete versions of the typescript found at Arizona State University and the New York Public Library archives, this lost masterpiece of satiric subversion is finally available in its entirety."

Contents: 

• Acknowledgments
• Antonio Bonome: Foreword
• Geoffrey D. Smith: "Brief Textual History"
• John M. Bennett: "Did Burroughs Have a Plan?"
• William S. Burroughs: "The Revised Boy Scout Manual": An Electronic Revolution
• V. Vale: Afterword
• Supplements
• Abbreviations and Sources
• Notes
• About the Editors and Contributors