An In-Depth Account Drawing on Interviews, Correspondence, and Unpublished Documents “I got a Christmas card from Burroughs,” J.G. Ballard told an interviewer in 1986.1 It should not have been much of a surprise: he had known William S. Burroughs for about twenty years; he had recently published an enthusiastic review of Burroughs’ essay collection, The…
Tag: Michael Moorcock
The Cosmic Satirist
by Michael Moorcock A Review, Written under the Pseudonym “James Colvin,” of The Naked Lunch Mary McCarthy has said of Burroughs and The Naked Lunch “This must be the first space novel, the first serious piece of science fiction — the others are entertainment… In him, as in Swift, there is a kind of soured…
A New Literature for the Space Age
by Michael Moorcock An Editorial for the First Moorcock-Edited Issue of New Worlds (1964) In a recent BBC broadcast, William Burroughs, controversial American author of Dead Fingers Talk, said something like this: “If writers are to describe the advanced techniques of the Space Age, they must invent writing techniques equally as advanced in order properly…
Michael Moorcock on William S. Burroughs
“To Write For the Space Age” Interview with Michael Moorcock by Mark P. Williams Michael Moorcock (1939-) has always been a politically and culturally engaged writer who has been generous in his support of authors from several generations, from diverse backgrounds and with quite different interests including close associations with J.G. Ballard, Angela Carter, Iain…