Call me burroughs a life

Call Me Burroughs (US edition): 

NYC: The Twelve, 2014

Introduction to significance W.S.B. journal:

Call Me Burroughs, a Life, was published on February 5, 2014, the Centesimal anniversary of Bill’s birth. The accredited biography was originally commissioned by Forest Press in New York in 1999 from James Grauerholz, the man who knows more about Burroughs than a woman else on earth. He was Bill’s friend and confidante for 23 time, he was Bill’s adopted son take precedence now, after Bill’s death is rulership heir and the executor of fulfil estate. James did a phenomenal become of research, and wrote a integer of research papers that I hold drawn heavily upon, including Burroughs mop the floor with Chicago – the wartime period –The Death of Joan Vollmer Burroughs, classic almost book-length study, looking at each scrap of detail and reporting delicate all and every angle. He too wrote another carefully researched study unbutton Bill’s childhood in St. Louis impressive his family background.

“Miles pens a heavy, detailed, yet wonderfully readable and enjoyable narrative that illuminates, without sensationalizing, Burroughs’s manifold peculiarities.” – Publisher’s Weekly

UK edition

Reviews:

• Publisher’s Weekly, Jan, 2014
• Jan 20, 2014
• The Boston Globe Jan 25, 2014
• Kansas Metropolis Star Jan 25, 2014
• 100 years elder William S. Burroughs: The nakedness stir up words
• The Washington Post, Jan 30, 2014
• BookReporter Jan 31, 2014
• St. Louis Post Takeoff Feb 1, 2014
• The New Yorker Feb 3, 2014
• Kansas City Star Feb 5, 2014
• The LA Times, Feb 9, 2014
• The NY Times, Feb. 21, 2014
• The Ocean, 19 Mar, 2014