The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Volume 4, Number 1 ("William S. Burroughs Number"), Spring 1984

[Partially shown, as practically all of the issue is Burroughs-related]

Burroughs contributes “Creative Reading”, “Ruski”, and “Revenge of the Ice Box”.  Includes multiple essays by others on Burroughs, plus an interview between Burroughs and Philippe Mikriammos.

Published in Elmwood Park, IL. by Review of Contemporary Fiction in Spring of 1984.

This copy was acquired from Jeffrey Weinberg of Water Row Books (Sudbury, MA.).

Bibliographic Information:

• Shoaf III.335
• Schottlaender v4.C548
• Raven 19840400TRCF.4.1, b9

Contents:

• Ruby Ray: cover photograph
• William S. Burroughs:
• "Creative Reading" (essay)
• "Revenge of the Ice Box" (prose)
• "Ruski" (prose)
• Philippe Mikriammos and William S. Burroughs: "The Last European Interview" (interview)
• Nicholas Zurbrugg and James Grauerholz: "Burroughs, Grauerholz, and Cities of the Red Night: An Interview with James Grauerholz" (interview)
• Michael Leddy: "'Departed Have Left No Address': Revelation/Concealment Presence/Absence in Naked Lunch" (essay)
• Gregory Stephenson: "The Gnostic Vision of William S. Burroughs" (essay)
• Alan Ansen: "William Burroughs: A Personal View" (essay)
• Regina Weinreich: "The Dynamic Déjà Vu of William Burroughs" (essay)
• Barbara L. Estrin: "The Revelatory Connection: Inspired Poetry and Naked Lunch" (essay)
• Steven Shaviro: "Burroughs' Theater of Illusion: Cities of the Red Night" (essay)
• Robin Lydenberg: "Beyond Good and Evil: 'How-To' Read Naked Lunch" (essay)
• Nicholas Zurbrugg: "Burroughs, Barthes, and the Limits of Intertextuality" (essay)
• Allan Johnston: "The Burroughs Biopathy: William S. Burroughs' Junky and Naked Lunch and Reichian Theory" (essay)
• David Ohle: "Fastest Brains Preserved" (essay)
• Jennie Skerl: "Freedom through Fantasy in the Recent Novels of William S. Burroughs" (essay)
• François Bucher: "Burroughs' Tree" (essay)
• Anne Waldman: "June Dream" (prose/poetry)
• Jürgen Ploog: "A Burroughs Primer" (essay)
• Glenn O'Brien: "Burroughs Live" (essay)
• Irving Malin: "Flashes of Schultz" (essay)
• James R. Bettinger: "Each Word Taken Clean, Clean: William Carlos Williams' White Mule and the Great American Novel" (essay)
• Thomas McGonigle: "49th Slice from, St. Patricks' Day, Dublin, 1974" (prose)
• book reviews

Publishing Information:

• Editor: John O'Brien
• Associate Editors: Jack Byrne, Lowell Dunlap
• Assistant Editor: Mary Jo Wenckus
• Book Review Editors: Thomas Broderick, Kathleen Burke
• Typist: Shirley Geever
• Cover Photo: Ruby Ray