Inexplicably, William S. Burroughs has not been embraced by the LGBTQI community as one of our own, even though his queerness was central to his life and work.
Fever Spores: The Queer Reclamation of William S. Burroughs
serves as an appreciation and reclamation project. We seek to bring Burroughs into the gay literary canon. Editors
Brian Alessandro
, co-author of
Edmund White's A Boy's Own Story
graphic novel, and
Tom Cardamone
, author of the Lambda Award-winning speculative fiction novel
Green Thumb
, have compiled interviews and essays featuring emerging and established writers, filmmakers, musicians, artists, and critics, including Blondie founders and musicians
Debbie Harry
and
Chris Stein
, cultural critic and author
Fran Lebowitz
, Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner
Tony Kushner
(
Angels in America
), filmmaker
David Cronenberg
The Fly
,
Dead Ringers
A History of Violence
Naked Lunch
), multiple Hugo-Nebula Award-winning science fiction writer
Samuel R. Delany
The Mad Man
Nova
Babel-17
), National Book Award-winner
Edmund White
, PUNK magazine founder and former SPIN and NERVE editor,
Legs McNeil
Gregory Woods
A History of Gay Literature
),
Paul Russell
The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov
Charlie Vázquez
Dreaming Out Loud: Voices of Undocumented Writers
), and Burroughs's bibliographer and literary executor,
James Grauerholz
, among many others. Some offer critical assessments of Burroughs, while others share personal experiences.