Description: In late summer 1953, as he returned to Mexico City after an expedition through Latin America, William Burroughs began a notebook of reflections. This notebook, the sole survivor from that period, reveals Burroughs as a man staring down personal catastrophe and visions of looming cultural disaster.
Review Quotes:
"A disturbing impressionist travelogue, a flawed but brilliant prose poem, and one writer's beginnings all at once, the notebook gives us a taste of the real Burroughs, pure and uncut." --The Georgia Review
"Everything Lost was written during the same period as Junky, Queer, and The Yage Letters, and it sheds light on all of them, as well as on Burroughs's methods of composition, the way he worked his material out in letters or journal entries before incorporating it into his books. Here we have a portrait of the artist in the act of becoming, a glimpse beneath the icon and its aftermath." --David L. Ulin, The Los Angeles Times
"Burroughs was an authentic American original and any doubts on that should be quelled by this journal." --The Morning News