You Can’t Win

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...

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,  BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws

People: Jack Black,  William Burroughs

Places: Canada,  San Francisco,  The Wild West,  United States

Times: 1875-1930