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	Junkie (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Junkie (also titled with the alternative spelling, Junky) is a semi-autobiographical novel by William S. Burroughs.
		First published in 1953, it was Burroughs' first published novel and has come to be considered a seminal text on the lifestyle of heroin addicts in the early 1950s.
		At the time of its publication, the novel was in a two-book ("dos-a-dos") omnibus edition (known as an "Ace Double") alongside a previously published 1941 novel called Narcotic Agent by Maurice Helbrant.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Junkie_(novel) (1088 words)

	Junkie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A junkie (or junky) is a heroin addict.
		Junkie (aka Junky), a book by William S. Burroughs.
		Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie an album by Alanis Morissette.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Junkie (154 words)

	Untitled Document
		The novel differed from the proletarian fiction of the sort common at the time in two ways: first, Algren's concern with the very lowest of the low, the unemployed and criminal lumpenproletariat was distinctive, as most proletarian fiction focused (as you might expect) on the plight of workers.
		Second, the novel has the seeds of what later marked Algren's work as unique: the combination of his sense of humor, his social conscience, his attention to craft, and his use of the vernacular American voice.
		Reviewers praised or condemned the novel both for Algren's prose style and for the quality of his approach to his subject matter, the neighborhood around Damen and Division and the people there.
	www.lookingglasstheatre.org /artistic/algren/algren/savage.htm (2684 words)

	Confessions of a Murakami Junkie - White Crane Films
		To read a Murakami novel is to be immersed into an experience, to journey into a world that is at once familiar and utterly mysterious.
		Superficially, this world is usually Tokyo but in reality, it is a chthonian alter-universe, a labyrinth of the subconscious, where Murakami is simply the lead explorer, as shocked and confounded as we are by the unexpected glimpses thrown up by the wandering arc of his flashlight.
		And in that sense, his novels are anti-intellectual; they strive for an almost mystical epiphany that is experienced rather than understood.
	www.whitecranefilms.com /other/murakami.html (1334 words)

	The Anniston Star - Entering McBain’s world
		The title of this novel is not solely reflective of Fat Ollie as the central character but also of the fact that Det. Weeks has written a first novel titled Report to the Commissioner.
		Ollie’s novel was stolen by a junkie who fantasizes that it’s a thinly disguised roman a clef which will lead him to millions of dollars worth of fl market diamonds illicitly smuggled from Uganda.
		The junkie’s frantic attempts to identify persons and places is laced with humor as is Ollie’s infamous W. Fields impersonation, “ah, yes!” Ultimately the councilman’s murder does get solved, but as to the disposition of Fat Ollie’s book, well I’m not going to give away everything.
	www.dailyhome.com /entertainment/2003/as-books-0222-0-3b21b1154.htm (853 words)

	Millennium is slouching toward Jerusalem
		The novel is more a trunk stuffed to overflowing with jack-booted Israelis, hysterical Palestinians, would-be messiahs, followers of would-be messiahs, ironic Americans, deadly serious Americans, nuns, priests, ex-nuns, ex-priests, mad bombers, canny bombers, beautiful religious devotion, terrifying religious fanaticism.
		And she's half-fl, half-white, a former junkie, wise enough to sound like Billie Holiday, gullible enough to think an old crack-brained American she meets in Jerusalem is the Messiah.
		This is the sort of objective tone, punctuated with irony, that carries the novel; it's a tone that makes the city's roiling madness not only tolerable but seductive.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/ae/books/9798/05/31/damascus.html (901 words)

	UP Press: Book Reviews
		Worst of all, they tend to look at life as if it were the life of the author, the life of a character in a novel, or a novel itself.
		The novel’s protagonist, Primi Peregrino, is a self-confessed bibliolept.
		Bibliolepts fashion their lives after an author or a novel in an effort to break free from the tedious humdrum of everyday existence.
	www.upd.edu.ph /~uppress/reviewapostol.html (860 words)

	William S. Burroughs
		Full of seminal imagination, Burroughs' work has redefined the novel in the late 20th century.
		Burroughs' writing is based on oral 'routines', satiric or surreal monologues which later grow, expand, implode and fold in on themselves to produce the finished books.
		I do not presume to impose story or plot or continuity.' His underground novel Naked Lunch is a quick-shifting pinwheel of the modern scene; has mad biting humor and sections of technological horror that out-Orwell Orwell"
	project.cyberpunk.ru /idb/william_s_burroughs.html (276 words)

	Blue Bossa review -- blueboss.htm
		The novel opens a couple of weeks after Patty Hearst's kidnapping, and uses her as a kind of reminder melody now and then, the same way Tchaikovsky might use a little trumpet call in the third movement to remind us of some melody in the first movement.
		When last he was an at-home father for Rae, Reboulet was a practicing junkie, which means his parenting skills weren't much; and, he was on the road a lot.
		And that is the meat of this novel: Whether this man has the strength and character to return from his derelict life to making something again of his gift for music.
	triviana.com /books/blueboss.htm (1066 words)

	Salon Books \| Celebrity junkie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The author of "Motherless Brooklyn" spotlights five terrific novels overshadowed by their film versions.
		An understated novel about life in the High Plains shines with a sophisticated optimism.
		My son, the junkie I finally had to let him save, or kill, himself.
	www.salon.com /books/int/1999/10/19/stahl/index1.html (1511 words)

	MetroActive Books \| Junkie Literature
		Junkie Lit: Ellen Miller's stunning debut novel, 'Like Being Killed,' is a caustic story of a junkie and her relationship with her roommate.
		The protagonists of books like Linda Yablonsky's The Story of Junk (a semi-autobiographical novel which could have been called "My Friends and I Were So Damn Cool") and Peter Trachtenberg's memoir 7 Tattoos are blanks, worth writing about only because of their authors' penchant for illegal substances and not-as-transgressive-as-they-think lifestyles.
		Like Being Killed is the story of a brilliant, caustic, masochistic Jewish junkie named Ilyana Meyerovich and her fraught relationship with her wholesome, maternal roommate, Susie.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sfmetro/08.24.98/books1-9832.html (1223 words)

	glbtq >> literature >> Burroughs, William S.
		Life in the underworld of addicts and petty criminals is the basis of his first published novel, Junkie (1953), written in a "hardboiled" style and published under the pseudonym of "Bill Lee" (his mother's maiden name).
		The novel was subject to a number of court cases for obscenity.
		Burroughs often drew on the paraliterature of "pulp" or genre fiction--such as detective novels, science fiction, spy thrillers, and westerns--but the conventions of these genres were violently distorted in his hands.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/burroughs_ws.html (1310 words)

	BookPage Fiction Review: Love in the Asylum
		No, that's not the lead-in to a bad joke; in fact, it's the premise of a really good novel.
		As in any such quest, what she finds might not be what she thought she was looking for.
		But the journey, much like this novel, is good medicine.
	www.bookpage.com /0404bp/fiction/love_in_asylum.html (340 words)

	The Popkorn Junkie :: A Beautiful Mind
		When I first saw the trailers for "About A Boy", having never read the novel, I assumed Hugh Grant was the father to the boy when, in fact, he is just some guy who befriends him.
		It was based on a novel from the author of "High Fidelity"--and, though this is a pretty decent flick, it doesn't come close to the film version of "High Fidelity", starring John Cusack.
		The most interesting aspect of the film, for me, was that it was directed by the same morons who thought "American Pie" was a classy idea.
	popkornjunkie.com /reviews/aboutaboy.html (562 words)

	Books \| Research junkie
		A critic once wrote of a friend's novel that she "wears her erudition lightly".
		The trouble is, she wears it like chain mail, clunking around in it with deafening lack of conviction.
		A meticulous "factual" novel must feel as loose and light as any tale pulled from thin air.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4172951-99930,00.html (533 words)

	Burroughs, William S(eward) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Burroughs, William S(eward)
		In 1944 he met Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, all three becoming leading members of the Beat Generation.
		His first novel, Junkie (1953), documented his heroin addiction and expatriation to Mexico, where in 1951 he accidentally killed his common-law wife.
		For these books he would literally cut up, reposition and paste in pieces of narrative from various sources, in order to see what kind of creative results they generated.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Burroughs,+William+S(eward) (272 words)

	Free Novels Online and Links to Other Free Online Cyber-Books
		These free novels are books and fictional works presented in their entirety online either as html or a downloadable file; they are available as free online novels from the authors in order to promote their work, seek representation, promote additional work, and/or develop a following.
		Though these free online novels are not found in the mainstream bookstores, many of them will eventually be discovered for their entertaining and enlightening value not always recognized by mainstream publishing until after a following is established.
		The novel entails their personal adventures of madness, fear and loathing and also serves as a hard boiled journalistic view of the cultureless disease that has begun to permeate college life in these early years of the 21st Century and how young adults, thrown into urban chaos, cope.
	www.starry.com /novel/authors.htm (5167 words)

	Live and Let Die - No, Trainspotting doesn't glamorize the junkie life. It just makes it sound reasonable. By Michael ...
		It is set in the anonymous suburbs of Edinburgh, among a group of junkies and boozers who speak a brand of Scottish English that sounds like some entirely imaginary language put through a voice scrambler.
		It is based on the novel of the same name by Irvine Welsh, and is the work of the producer-director-writer team (Andrew Macdonald-Boyle-John Hodge) that made Shallow Grave.
		In the novel, Mark and a friend enter an abandoned railway station in the Edinburgh suburb of Leith.
	www.slate.com /id/3187 (1299 words)

	Seedless » Opiate/Heroin/Drugs - Books
		Republished in paperback in 1971 by Belmont Tower, with the new title of “Junkie,” this is a pretty straightforward account of life as lived by a butch lesbian heroin addict in NYC in the 1960s.
		This novel is a hoot, lots of realistic details about addiction and withdrawal (which Crowley knew a lot about), staged against a background of upper-class English aristos, all coupled with a lot of Crowley’s bizarre spiritual beliefs.
		Lots of junkie business, but very moralistic (Fisher was just convinced that each and every one of those late ’60s pothead kids was going to end up just like she did).
	www.junkylife.com /seedless/index.php/2005/09/02/opiateheroindrugs-books (6904 words)

	Merchandise: Richard Hell books in print
		Go Now is a novel, set in 1980, about a burnt-out junkie punk named Billy Mud who thinks he's gotten a chance to renew his relationship with his French dream soul-mate Chrissa while also outdistancing his drug habit and proving he's good for something.
		It's a novel that presents a middle-aged poet, Paul Vaughn, recalling in 1997 the intense affair he had in 1971 -- when he was 27 -- with a brilliant 16-year-old boy, "T." (Randall Terence Wode), also a poet.
		The novel shifts back and forth between the middle-aged writer, temporarily hospitalized for a nervous breakdown, ruminating on his condition while he convalesces, and the novel (Godlike within the novel Godlike) he's writing in order to preserve his memories of the burning, fervent period in the early seventies that he spent with his adolescent boyfriend.
	www.richardhell.com /helllit.html (1717 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Junkie Pilgrim at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Seen through the bleary eyes of heroin junkie Chris Coates, Wayne Grogan takes us on a hell-ridden slide in a nightmare daze with his Junkie Pilgrim.
		Junkie Pilgrim is not the kind of book you look for if you want a feel good story of a brave character who manages to triumph against all the odds.
		Wayne has already lived through his own nightmare of drug addiction and prison stretches before coming out the other side with a university degree and now a novel.
	www.epinions.com /content_196364111492 (679 words)

	The Superhero Hype! Boards - Otherside: A novel by TheReaper.
		The Junkie took a step away from the fight, he yanked a meager knife from his jacket and pointed it at James.
		The Junkie whispers calmly ‘ Empty your pockets bub and I want shank yah.’ He leaned closer to James and reached out to him, James stiff like he was already dead.
		The Junkie collapsed to the concrete, howling in pain and rubbing his wrist.
	www.superherohype.com /forums/printthread.php?t=153144 (23282 words)

	Salon Interview \| Celebrity junkie
		Stahl has also recently collaborated with Ben Stiller on a pair of screenplays and is working on a TV pilot with ex-Devo member Mark Mothersbaugh.
		"Writing novels is an expensive habit; a guy has to find a way to pay for it," he says.
		On the BBC they asked if they could see my tracks and I said, of course, but most of them are on my penis.
	www.salon.com /books/int/1999/10/19/stahl/print.html (1791 words)

	The Hindu : Confessions of a Murakami junkie
		The Hindu : Confessions of a Murakami junkie
		I don't want to analyse it, but Jung and those people, psychiatrists, are always analysing dreams and the significance of everything.
		Like the junkie I am, I breathe a deep sigh of contentment.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/lr/2002/12/01/stories/2002120100420500.htm (1437 words)

	Jedi Council Forums - Should each novel have an opening crawl?
		Cloak of Deception is the only novel, that I know of, that has one.
		On the other hand, it's completely unneccessary in a novel, where such exposition can easily be incorporated into the text of the narrative.
		To have an opening crawl in each novel would not be clumsy, but enhancen the tradition and empower the storyline with an entrenched authenticity.
	boards.theforce.net /Message.aspx?topic=14900022 (993 words)

	desiring a perfect world :: from Imaginary Year : A Serial Web Novel
		When we feel bad at the end of the movie, we feel bad in the same way we feel if we were watching somebody hit a dog with a stick.
		Junkie movies are about desiring a perfect world.
		Copies may be made in part or in full by any individual for noncommercial use, provided all copies retain this notice in its entirety.
	www.imaginaryyear.com /archive/1401.html (451 words)

	Psychedelic 60s: The Beats: New York
		With a foreword by William Carlos Williams, Howl, often referred to as the "Beat Manifesto," was the first successful publication of the Beat era, and became one of the most influential books of twentieth century American poetry.
		Inspired by a letter from Neal Cassady and the in-progress manuscript of William Burroughs' Junkie, Kerouac taped together rolls of tracing paper, lined up a supply of Benzedrine, cigarettes and coffee, and began a marathon nonstop writing session that lasted three weeks and produced 186,000 words.
		On the Road remains one of the most influential novels of its time and stands as the seminal novel of the Beat period.
	www.lib.virginia.edu /small/exhibits/sixties/beatsny.html (1029 words)

	Kingdom Hospital - Movie Discussion Forum & Message Board
		Reminiscent of The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer and its tie-in to the TV miniseries Rose Red, this novel disguised as nonfiction is a tie-in to the Stephen King TV series Kingdom Hospital.
		It consists of Eleanor's journals of her investigation into the paranormal occurrences at the hospital, the identity of a child whose phantom cries only she can hear, and the secrets of her own past.
		The novel reveals an explanation for only part of the mysteries Eleanor is investigating.
	www.cinemablend.com /forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7868 (569 words)

	ALLEN & UNWIN AUSTRALIA: Lead Titles 1997 - BETWEEN THE LINES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		An unforgettable novel about tracing the line of fateful recognition and repetition between mother and daughter.
		Erica Jong's new novel is the hundred-year epic of a Jewish family in America, told through the stories of four generations of women from one unconventional, artistic clan.
		A dazzling new novel set deep in the mysterious subways of New York city from the prize-winning author of FISHING THE SLOE-BLACK RIVE and SONGDOGS.
	www.thei.aust.com /isite/btl/btlleadallen.html (1851 words)

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