William Burroughs & Malcolm McNeill

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The Lost Art of Ah Pook is Here by Malcolm McNeill

Observed While Falling by Malcolm McNeill

Rush The Magazine of High Entertainment December 1976

For Further reading and viewing:

William Burroughs discussing Ah Pook
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5WQWo0ZL14

Word Virus: The William Burroughs Reader edited by James Grauerholz and Ira Silverberg (Although Ah, Pook is Here isn't excerpted, the Reader is a good introduction to Burroughs' work, with insightful biographies to each stage in his career)

The Letters of William Burroughs 1945-1959 edited by Oliver Harris (Essential reading for a better understanding of the composition and development of Naked Lunch, especially the letters to Allen Ginsberg)

Marshal McLuhan Notes on William Burroughs (Published in The Nation magazine in 1964, influential media critic Marshal McLuhan, an early defender of Burroughs' work, recognized not only his "cut up" storytelling method, but the purpose behind it).

Marshal McLuhan "the Medium is the Message" on Dick Cavett in 1970 discussing the revolutionary affects of television on people, which in hindsight is interesting given the dominance now of the internet on our behavior, especially our growing dependence on the "toys", what I call the phones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcqB2TESg8g

William Burroughs interview in the Paris Review 1965, a few years after the publication of Naked Lunch
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4424/the-art-of-fiction-no-36-william-s-burroughs