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While Gysin was known for going on tirades against Jews, I don't remember ever reading anything by or about Burroughs along those lines. However, Burroughs certainly did parrot Gysin's views on just about every other issue (attraction to the occult, conspiracy theories, militant politicized homosexuality), leading to statements of dubious value.

Regardless, the reviewer confirms what many on this site (myself included) that the social and intellectual world inhabited by Burroughs before his association with Gysin was quite different from the one that followed.

this James Campbell review in London's Guardian is astute. He is quite polite about the editing. There should be a review from Phil Baker in the The Times Literary... but it hasn't appeared yet as far as I can see.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/ma ... ghs-review

Do you refer to Jews or Israelis? The distinction is not mine. I have been corrected severally by American born or American bred Jews or Israeli citizens or European Jews. I have blue eyes and blond hair but I am tired of this quick-draw "anti-Semitism" charge thrown at any joke or insult against the Jeeeewwwws. I am not white. There's no such thing. Please compare the instance of the Saxon Germanic vs. the Aryan Germanic peoples. Stop it. I am against any people who are invested in maintaining their own sense of people at the expense of other people. I throw insults off my balcony like dollars from Henry Sugar's enlightened hands. My girlfriend is Jewish and she doesn't make those soaped bones about casual slight but guffaws at such as your sensitivities which you hold to be rightwise, you cheap shot. Plenty of reason to hate anybody without cheap mention of their stupid race or supposed heritage. Stop it, you imbecile. Stop it! Welcome to the New World.

I really don't understand why my post initiated such a shrill and hostile response from you. There was no "cheap shot" there. I was just remarking that in contrast to the author of the review article on Rub out the Words, I never detected any specific animus towards Jews or any other ethnicity in Burroughs' writing. He does parody Jewish stereotypes, but also Arab stereotypes, WASP southerner stereotypes, gay stereotypes, and just about everyone else.

My post was not an endorsement of any ethnic identity or opposition to anyone's ethnic identity, simply a statement of observation and fact.

There is the Phil Baker review from Sunday Times of 22 April Culture section (not TLS - was there a review in the TLS ?). I can't put a web link in because you need to be a subscriber.
The photo of Bill with the Bowie/Ziggy poster is a gem ... and very apposite because that 'dilly boy (from whom Bowie got the Ziggy look) was a friend of John Brady.
I'll try and do a scan that is sharp enough and small enough to upload.
Jim