Word Virus – The William S. Burroughs Reader – Review

Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader

(Grove Press, $27.50, 532 pp.)
by Thomas Christian

Compilation of published works spanning the career of one of the great American minds of the 20th Century. Includes CD-single and an excerpt of the rarely seen 1945-penned collaboration with Kerouac And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks. Expert and insightful commentary from editors Ira Silverberg and long-time companion James Grauerholz, introduction by Anji Douglas.