Cities of the Red Night
Author: William S. Burroughs
While young men wage war against an evil empire of zealous mutants, the population of this modern inferno is afflicted with the epidemic of a radioactive virus. An opium-infused apocalyptic vision from the legendary author of Naked Lunchthe first of the trilogy with The Places of the Dead Roads and his final novel The Western Plains…..Read More
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The Wild Boys
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V.
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The Place of Dead Roads
A good old-fashion shoot-out in the American West of the frontier days serves as the springboard for this hyperkinetic adventure in which gunslingers, led by Kim Carson, fight for galactic… Continue Reading Posted in: Colorado Boulder, Frontier And Pioneer Life, Western Stories
Lonesome Traveler
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The Western Lands
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The Soft Machine
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The Subterraneans
Jack Kerouac, one of the great voices of the Beat generation and author of the classic On the Road, here continues his peregrinations in postwar, underground San Francisco. "The subterraneans"… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary Literature & Fiction, Fiction, Lifestyles
Mason & Dixon
Charles Mason (1728 -1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British Surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line.… Continue Reading
Queer
Escrita en 1952 pero no publicada hasta 1985 debido a su franca plasmación del deseo homosexual, "Queer", obra temprana de William S. Burroughs, es al mismo tiempo un descarnado autorretrato… Continue Reading Posted in: American Writers, Autobiographical Fiction, Fiction In English
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