Document Type
Review
Abstract
[First paragraph]
William S. Burroughs Jr. was the son of the author of Naked Lunch and Joan Vollmer, whom his father accidentally (at least consciously speaking) shot in a "William Tell act" in Mexico City. He was also, in his own words, "the author of two novels [Speed and Kentucky Ham] published in seven languages, and numerous articles in national magazines." The title of this latest incarnation from Soft Skull Press casts Burroughs Jr. in the tradition of the poètes maudites and, interestingly, in relation to a short story by Ernest Hemingway about a woman who "accidentally" shoots her husband during a safari.
Repository Citation
Clinton, Alan. "Review of Cursed From Birth: The Short, Unhappy Life of William S. Burroughs Jr., by William S. Burroughs, Jr.." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 7, no. 1, 2007, pp. 1–2. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol7/iss1/62