Dead Fingers Talk Anne Michaels Modern life is hectic and

Modern life is hectic and relentless- trains delayed

Publication Date: 28 Jan 2005

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Dead Fingers Talk Anne Michaels Modern life is hectic andDead 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