My Education

<i>My Education</i> is William S. Burroughs's final collection first published two years before his death in 1997. It is a book of dreams written over several decades and as personal and close to a memoir as we will see. The dreams cover themes from the mundane and ordinary -- conversations with his friends Allen Ginsberg or Ian Sommerville feeding his cats procuring drugs or sex -- to the erotic bizarre and visionary. Always a rich source of imagery in Burroughs's own fiction in this book dreams become a direct and powerful force in themselves. <p/>Mr. Burroughs has lost none of his irreverence or wit but in recent years he has acquired an elegant elegiac tone. - <i>The New York Times</i>