Rub Out the Words: The Letters, 1959-1974
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"Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American."
—Joan Didion
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"Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift."
—Jack Kerouac
Carefully edited from more than 1000 of his personal correspondences, Rub Out the Wordsis a collection of 300 of the best letters of Naked Lunchauthor William S. Burroughs, written between 1959 and 1974. A truly remarkable compendium, it offers an eye-opening and insightful look into the artistic process and complex personal life of the legendary literary outlaw in the post-Beat era—providing a new understanding and appreciation of an author who stood alongside Paul Bowles and Charles Bukowski as one of the most creative and rebellious American artists of the 20th century.
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