The Adding Machine Selected Essays Author:William S. Burroughs In these scintillating essays William S. Burroughs writes wittily and wisely about himself, his interests, his influences, his friends and foes. He offers candid and not always flattering assessments of such diverse writers as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Samuel Beckett, and M... more »arcel Proust. He ruminates on science and the often dubious paths into which it seems intent on leading us, whether into outer or inner space. His comments on genetics and mind control are as prescient as they are probing. He reviews his reviewers, explains his famous "cut-up" method, discusses the role coincidence has played in his life and his work, As satirist and parodist, he has no peer, as these varied works, written over 3 decades, amply reveal.« less