William Burroughs, at the age of 13, was inspired by this book, as he mentions in a preface to Naked Lunch. You Can't Win is a memoir that explodes our ideas about the supposedly lawful past; Jack was a drifter, robber, junkie, and hustler that survived from the frontier times til the depression era...apparently. He became a librarian of sorts, wrote his memoir, and then vanished...
Genres
- Biography
- Criminals
- junkie
- memoir
- naked lunch
- underground history
- william burroughs
- Thieves
- Crime and criminals
- Long Now Manual for Civilization
- Criminals, united states
- Criminals, biography
- Criminals, canada
- Canada, biography
- United states, biography
- Black jack, 1871-1897
- Autobiography
- Escapes
- Ex-convicts
- Jewel thieves
- Prison reform
- Prison violence
- Rogues and vagabonds
- Crime
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws
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