One novel by this author concludes with the narrator reaching "the end of what can be done withwords," asking "and then?," an
One novel by this author concludes with the narrator reaching "the end of what can be done withwords," asking "and then?," and focuses on the poor old writer William Hall's mystical journey to theEgyptian afterlife. Another of his novels was excoriated in the Times Literary Supplement with a headlinereading "Ugh!" This author receives magical bullets from Pegleg in the avant-garde musical The BlackRider, which dramatizes how he accidentally murdered his wife in a game of handgun William Tell. Thisman drew on his own experiences living in Tangier to write about a man on the run from the police whocomes across users of "black meat" in Freeland and crashes an orgy thrown by Hassan in Interzone. For 10points, name this Beat author of The Western Land and Naked Lunch.
One novel by this author concludes with the narrator reaching "the end of what can be done withwords," asking "and then?," and focuses on the poor old writer William Hall's mystical journey to theEgyptian afterlife.
William Seward Burroughs II [or William Lee]