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You Can't Win
by Jack Black
First Published
2009
Subjects
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
Description
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...