Memoir : of William S. Burroughs, [1956-1958] [manuscript].

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Memoir : of William S. Burroughs, [1956-1958] [manuscript].

This one page fragment is from a memoir of Burroughs' life in Tripoli, Algiers and Tangier. This particular page mentions the Suez crisis of 1956, his full-time writing, his books, Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine, The Ticket That Exploded, Nova Express, meeting Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Paul and Jane Bowles, Alan Anson, and a trip to Scandinavia.

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University of Virginia. Library

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