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Reviews

Call Me Burroughs: A Life / William S. Burroughs: A Life

UK Reviews:

  • Financial Times Feb 7, 2014
  • The Spectator, Feb 8, 2014
  • The Guardian, Feb 9, 2014
  • Independent Feb 20, 2014
  • Evening Standard Feb 20, 2014

US Reviews:

  • Publisher’s Weekly, Jan, 2014
  • Bookforum.com Jan 20, 2014
  • The Boston Globe Jan 25, 2014
  • Kansas City Star Jan 25, 2014
  • 100 years of William S. Burroughs: The nakedness of words
  • The Washington Post, Jan 30, 2014
  • BookReporter Jan 31, 2014
  • St. Louis Post Dispatch 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

London Calling

  • John Preston, Telegraph (March 2010)
  • Arifa Akbar, Independent (January 2011)
  • David Haslam, Guardian (April 2010)
  • Travis Elborough, Guardian (February 2011)
  • Liz Thomson, Independent (March 2010)
  • Peter Lewis, Daily Mail (March 2010)
  • Julian Mitchell, The Spectator (March 2010)

Hippie

  • Christopher Hitchens, NY Times (2004)

In the Sixties

  • Rachel Cooke, The Observer (2002)
  • Ian Penman, The Guardian (2002)

Charles Bukowski

  • Ron Powers, NY Times (2006)

The Beat Hotel

  • Hammond Guthrie, Empty Mirror Books (2004)

Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now

  • Oiiopo, Ultimate-Guitar.com (2009)
  • Rob Blackhurst, his website, Spring 1997

Zappa: A Biography

  • Camille Paglia, NY Times (2004)
  • Counter-culture Books

    • In the Seventies: Adventures in the Counterculture
    • London Calling
    • Hippie
    • In the Sixties
    • Peace: 50 Years of Protest
  • Beat Generation Books

    • William S. Burroughs: A Life
    • Call Me Burroughs, A Life
    • Ginsberg: A Biography
    • The Beat Hotel
    • Charles Bukowski
    • Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats. A Portrait.
    • William Burroughs: El Hombre Invisible
  • Rock ‘n’ Roll Books

    • The British Invasion
    • Frank Zappa: The Biography
    • Pink Floyd: The Early Years.
    • Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now.
    • Reviews
    • Full Bibliography
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