Exterminator!

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**Exterminator!**

1974 Viking Press paperback edition.
Author	William S. Burroughs
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	short stories
Publisher	Viking Press
Released	1973
Media Type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)

Exterminator! is a short story collection written by William S. Burroughs and first published in 1973 (some editions such as the 1974 paperback illustrated at right label the book a novel).

It is not to be confused with The Exterminator, another collection of stories Burroughs published in 1960.

The collection contains a number of Burroughs' most popular short pieces, such as "Twilight's Last Gleamings", "The Disciple of DE", "Wind Die, You Die, We Die", "Ali's Smile", and "The Coming of the Purple Better One". Some of the stories, such as "Ali's Smile", had previously been published in other books and magazines such as Rolling Stone, Village Voice, Evergreen Review, and Esquire Magazine.

The title story is about an insect exterminator, a job Burroughs himself once held.

In the 1980s, actor Ed Asner recorded a spoken word adaptation of "Wind Die. You Die. We Die", while Burroughs and Kurt Cobain recorded a musical version of one of the stories as the "Priest" they called him.

Some of the stories were initially published elsewhere, such as "Ali's Smile", which was also later included in Ali's Smile/Naked Scientology. A different story entitled "Twilight's Last Gleamings" appears in the later collection, Interzone.

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Exterminator! contains the following stories:

"Exterminator!"
The Lemon Kid
Short Trip Home
Davy Jones
The Evening News
Astronaut's Return
My Face
Wind Die. You Die. We Die.
End of the Line
The Drums of Death
"Johnny 23"
The Discipline of DE
The Perfect Servant
Ali's Smile
Twilight's Last Gleamings
The Coming of the Purple Better One
"What Washington? What Orders?"
From Here to Eternity
The Teacher
THey Do Not Always Remember
Friends
Seeing Red
Old Movie
Electricals
SPUT
Reddies
The "Priest" They Called Him
My Legs Señor
The End
Cold Lost Marbles

Works by William S. Burroughs

Novels: And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (unpublished) - Junkie - Queer - Naked Lunch - The Soft Machine - The Ticket That Exploded - Dead Fingers Talk - Nova Express - The Last Words of Dutch Schultz - The Wild Boys - Port of Saints - Cities of the Red Night - The Place of Dead Roads - The Western Lands - My Education: A Book of Dreams
Short fiction : Interzone - Exterminator! - Ali's Smile/Naked Scientology - Blade Runner, a movie - Tornado Alley - Ghost of Chance
Non-fiction: The Yage Letters - The Electronic Revolution - The Job - The Third Mind - Letters to Allen Ginsberg - The Burroughs File - The Adding Machine: Collected Essays - The Cat Inside - Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs - Evil River (announced 2007)
Recordings : Dead City Radio

Films: The Junky's Christmas - Ah Pook is Here - Naked Lunch