The New York Review of Books, Volume 31, Number 8, 10 May 1984

Luc Sante contributes "The Invisible Man", pp. 12-15, a combined review of William S. Burroughs' The Place of Dead Roads, Naked Lunch: The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition, and Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957 along with Howard Brookner's Burroughs: The Movie.  This contribution is called "William Burroughs's Scene" on the cover.

An illustration of Burroughs by David Levine accompanies the essay.

Published in New York City by The New York Review of Books in May 1984.

This copy was acquired from the collection of Peter Lennon (Chicago, Illinois, US).

Bibliographic Information: 

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4, v5)
• Raven 19840510NYRB.31.8

Selected Contents: 

• Janet Malcolm: "The Game of Lights" (review of the Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera)
• David Levine: illustrations
• D. S. Carne-Ross: "Horacescope" (combined review of The Complete Works of Horace translated by Charles E. Passage and The Essential Horace: Odes, Epodes, Satires, and Epistles translated by Burton Raffel)
• Harold Pinter: "One for the Road" (script)
• Luc Sante: "The Invisible Man" (combined review of The Place of Dead Roads, Naked Lunch: The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition, and Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957 by William S. Burroughs, as well as Howard Brookner's Burroughs: The Movie)
• William Shawcross: "The Burial of Cambodia" (essay)
• David Hawk: photographs
• Keith Thomas: "Excelsior!" (review of The Discoverers by Daniel J. Boorstin)
• Thomas R. Edwards: "An American Education" (review of Democracy by Joan Didion)
• Hal Draper: "Pie in the Sky" (review of The Heyday of American Communism: The Depression Decade by Harvey Klehr)
• Stephen Spender: "Forster's Shadow" (review of Selected Letters of E. M. Forster, Vol. I: 1879-1920, edited by Mary Lago and P. N. Furbank)
• Shaul Bakhash: "The Outcasts of Iran" (essay)
• M. H. Abrams: "The Keenest Critic" (review of Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic by David Bromwich)
• Pier Paolo Pasolini: "The Bells of Orvieto" (poetry)
• Jane Jacobs: "Why TVA Failed" (essay)
• letters

Publishing Information: 

• Publisher: A. Whitney Ellsworth
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• Advisory Editor: Elizabeth Hardwick
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