Fever Spores: The Queer Reclamation of William S. Burroughs in Bloomington, MN

Inexplicably, William S. Burroughs has not been embraced by the LGBTQI community as one of our own, even though his queerness was central to his life and work.
Fever Spores: The Queer Reclamation of William S. Burroughs
serves as an appreciation and reclamation project. We seek to bring Burroughs into the gay literary canon. Editors
Brian Alessandro
, co-author of
Edmund White's A Boy's Own Story
graphic novel, and
Tom Cardamone
, author of the Lambda Award-winning speculative fiction novel
Green Thumb
, have compiled interviews and essays featuring emerging and established writers, filmmakers, musicians, artists, and critics, including Blondie founders and musicians
Debbie Harry
and
Chris Stein
, cultural critic and author
Fran Lebowitz
, Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner
Tony Kushner
(
Angels in America
), filmmaker
David Cronenberg
The Fly
,
Dead Ringers
A History of Violence
Naked Lunch
), multiple Hugo-Nebula Award-winning science fiction writer
Samuel R. Delany
The Mad Man
Nova
Babel-17
), National Book Award-winner
Edmund White
, PUNK magazine founder and former SPIN and NERVE editor,
Legs McNeil
Gregory Woods
A History of Gay Literature
),
Paul Russell
The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov
Charlie Vázquez
Dreaming Out Loud: Voices of Undocumented Writers
), and Burroughs's bibliographer and literary executor,
James Grauerholz
, among many others. Some offer critical assessments of Burroughs, while others share personal experiences.