DEAD FINGERS TALK (by the author of Naked Lunch)

Dead Fingers Talk, first published in 1963, combines sections from Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine and The Ticket That Exploded combined together to create a new narrative. Dead Fingers Talk, like many of Burroughs' works, was controversial upon its release. It was the subject of a scathing review in the Times Literary Supplement that resulted in a war of words between supporters and detractors of the novel (and Burroughs in general) that played out in the magazine's letters page for months. The book itself is considered one of the rarer of Burroughs' novels.