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Beat Literature & History > William S. Burroughs William Burroughs (1915-1997) is widely reconized as one of the most innovative writers of the twentieth century. His books include: Junky, Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine, and Cities of the Red Night.

1 2 >>>     sort list by title | author Rub Out the Words The Letters of William S. Burroughs 1959-1974 William S. Burroughs, Bill Morgan In this long anticipated collection, editor Bill Morgan takes readers through Burroughs' correspondence from the early sixties through the mid-seventies, in more than three hundred letters that document Burroughs’ steady drift away from the Beat circle... The Yage Letters Redux Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Oliver Harris In January 1953, William Burroughs began a seven-month expedition into the jungles of South America, ostensibly to find yage, the fabled hallucinogen of the Amazon. But Burroughs also cast his anthropological-satiric eye over the local regimes... Queer Beats How the Beats Turned America on to Sex Regina Marler The writings that shocked America out of the 1950s. Blasting through the crew-cuts and conformism of their day, the Beat writers were queer in the fullest sense of the word: their fluid sexuality challenged all sexual and romantic conventions. Most... Naked Lunch The Restored Text William S. Burroughs "He was," as Salon's Gary Kamyia notes, "20th-century drug culture's Poe, its Artaud, its Baudelaire. He was the prophet of the literature of pure experience, a phenomenologist of dread.... Burroughs had the scary genius to turn the junk wasteland... The Cat Inside William S. Burroughs Best known for the wild, phantasmagoric satire of works like Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs reveals another, gentler side in The Cat Inside. Originally published as a limited-edition volume, this moving and witty discourse on cats combines deadpan... The Beat Hotel Ginsberg, Burroughs & Corso in Paris, 1957-1963 Barry Miles The Beat Hotel is a delightful chronicle of a remarkable moment in American literary history. From the Howl obscenity trial to the invention of the cut-up technique, Barry Miles's extraordinary narrative chronicles the feast of ideas that was Paris... Last Words The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs William S. Burroughs Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs is the most intimate book ever written by William S. Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch and one of the most celebrated literary outlaws of our time. Laid out as diary entries of the last nine months... My Education A Book of Dreams William S. Burroughs Hundreds of dreams–intense, vivid, visionary–form the spiraling core of a unique and haunting journey into perception. The Wild Boys A Book of the Dead William S. Burroughs A pleasant little fable about global warfare. The Ticket That Exploded William S. Burroughs The grand "cut-up" trilogy that started with The Soft Machine and continued with Nova Express reaches its percussive climax with this novel. The Soft Machine William S. Burroughs "One of the most interesting pieces of radical fiction we have." – The Nation The Western Lands William S. Burroughs "The Western Lands illuminates and puts into perspective the whole body of work of the Grand Iconoclast, who has altered the concept of the novel more powerfully – some would say 'violently' – than any other writer of his time." The Burroughs File William S. Burroughs Trenchant writings by that sardonic ""hombre invisible,"" William Seward Burroughs, perpetrator of Naked Lunch and other shockers. These malefic and beatific, mordant and hilarious straight-face reports on life are mostly from scatter-shot... Exterminator! William S. Burroughs An experimental novel full of apocalyptic visions. 1 2 >>>