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 This authoritative anthology of Burroughs writing is intended as much for the general reader as for the scholar. Word Virus brings together a selection of Burroughs most important work beginning with his earliest writing (including a chapter from a neverbeforeseen collaborative novel with Jack Kerouac) and following his trajectory through the major novels to his final book My Education a series of meditations on his own extraordinary dreamlife. Biographical prefaces to each chapter and Beat historian Ann Douglass introductory essay provide an overview of the life and work of this unique writer.