Job

William Burroughs' work was dedicated to an assault upon language traditional values and all agents of control. Produced at a time when he was at his most extreme and messianic <i>The Job </i>lays out his abrasive incisive paranoiac maddened and maddening worldview in interviews interspersed with stories and other writing. On the Beat movement the importance of the cut-up technique the press Scientology capital punishment drugs good and evil the destruction of nations Deadly Orgone Radiation and whether violence just in words is violence enough - Burroughs' insights show why he was one of the most influential writers and one of the sharpest most startling and strangest minds of his generation.