I am a D.J., I am what I play: Review of William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll Available to Purchase

DAVIS SCHNEIDERMAN is Krebs Provost and Dean of the Faculty and Professor of English at Lake Forest College. He is the author or editor of more than 10 books, and his first short-story collection, there is no appropriate #emoji, will be released in 2021. He is currently working with the University of Minnesota Press on a project about William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin, and with The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation on Lake Forest College's Humanities 2020 grant. He coedited the collections Retaking the Universe: Williams S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization and The Exquisite Corpse: Chance and Collaboration in Surrealism's Parlor Game. Schneiderman's work has appeared in numerous publications including Fiction International, Harpers.org, The Chicago Tribune, The Iowa Review, TriQuarterly, and Exquisite Corpse. He was a longtime contributor for The Huffington Post and has interviewed Sherry Turkle, John Waters, Regina Taylor, David Shields, and Aleksandar Hemon, among many others.