The Job (book)
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The Job (full English title The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs) is a book by Daniel Odier built around an extensive series of interviews with Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs conducted in the late 1960s. Originally published in France in 1969, it was later reissued in several different English-language editions. Odier and Burroughs share authorship of the book, but it is common to see Burroughs given sole front cover author credit.
As Burroughs explains in a forward, what began as a series of impromptu interviews covering topics ranging from Scientology to Burroughs' longtime drug addiction led to a work that contains flashbacks and cinematic-style "fade outs". Some of Burroughs' replies to Odier's questions are presented in near novella-length form (such as the chapter "Academy 23").
Later editions of the book added a prologue by Burroughs entitled "Playback from Eden to Watergate" that reflected on topics of discussion that emerged after the Odier interviews.
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Novels: And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (unpublished) - Junkie - Queer - Naked Lunch - The Soft Machine - The Ticket That Exploded - Dead Fingers Talk - Nova Express - The Last Words of Dutch Schultz - The Wild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
