New York, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 2017. First Edition Thus. Softcover. A Beat-literary Cut-Up Classic, reissued—at long last—with consummate dignity: “Electric Bananas” [initially titled “Electric Banana”], the William S. Burroughs-inspired assembly of (brilliantly confounding) clusterfucks-in-prose first issued in 1975. Happily reprinted here is Burroughs’ key introduction to the work, for his imprimatur here is not “unthinking” in its praise. It speaks less to the friend-considerate, Beat-writerly “ritual favor” of “Introduction-gifting”..... More