The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs (1970)

Don't be put off by this book as merely an interview, or a compendium to his own books. These interviews are more than a wonderful opportunity to hear him speak the thoughts that drive his fiction. This will provoke the reader in a way exclusive to his novels. Read on and this mans imagination becomes unbelievably real! ( )

With Burroughs, you are just never sure. And I am starting to think that is why we enjoy it. This book of interviews with the author at some point starts to slip, and begins to feel like his fiction (there are inserts of his fiction and essays throughout). And I think that is the beauty of his work; it works us into a state that insures that we can no longer tell the difference between fiction and non-fiction anymore. Is what he is saying 'real' or and absurdist's vignette? ( )