Cultural Writing. Interviews. Fiction. Essays. Updated with Vale's last interview with Burroughs on april 27, 1997, plus photos of burroughs, gysin, genesis p-orridge. This is a manual of ideas and insights. Strikingly designed, with rare photographs, bibliographies, discographies, chronologies and illustrations. Interviews with pioneering artists William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and Throbbing Gristle proposes ground-breaking, radical cultural agendas, as noted by the London Observer. Topics discussed include self-defense, biological warfare, revolution, utopias, assassination, con-men, politicians, lost inventions, turning points in history, the killing of JFK, dreams, ideal education, Hassan I Sabbah, nuclear weaponry, cloning, the cut-up theory and practice in producing prophetic writing, Moroccan trance music, the Dream Machine, art forgeries, Manson, the media control process, prostitution, the possibilities of video, and what else??