Before the era of fake news and anti-fascists, William S.
He was editor of the international literary journal L.
Bennett is the founding curator of the Avant Writing Collection at The Ohio State University Libraries.
John M.
Burroughs Collection at Ohio State.
He was also longtime steward of the William S.
Smith is Professor Emeritus, former head of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library of The Ohio State University Libraries, and adjunct professor in the Department of English.
Geoffrey D.
Jack Kerouac called Burroughs the "greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift," while Norman Mailer declared him "the only American writer who may be conceivably possessed by genius." While he is best known for the novels Naked Lunch, Queer, and Junkie, he also collaborated with artists such as Laurie Anderson, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Gus Van Sant, David Cronenberg, and Sonic Youth to produce films, music, and performance pieces.
Burroughs was a primary figure of the Beat Generation who wrote in the postmodern paranoid fiction genre.
About the Author: William S.
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.
The Revised Boy Scout Manual was a work Burroughs revisited many times, but which has never before been published in its complete form.
The work is funny, horrifying, and eerily prescient, especially concerning the use of language and social media to undermine institutions.
As with much of Burroughs\' work, it is hard to say if it is serious or purely satire.
In this work, Burroughs\' parody becomes a set of rationales and instructions for destabilizing the state and overthrowing an oppressive and corrupt government.
Burroughs wrote about preparing for Revolution and confronting institutionalized power.
Before the era of fake news and anti-fascists, William S
