William S. Burroughs bibliography

This is a bibliography of the works of William S. Burroughs.

Novels and other long fiction

Note: Burroughs published revised and rewritten editions of several of the above novels, including The Soft Machine and The Ticket That Exploded, while reedited versions of some books such as Junkie and Naked Lunch have been published posthumously.

Non-fiction and letters

Stories and novellas

  • Valentine's Day Reading (1965)
  • Time (1965)
  • APO-33 (1966)
  • The Dead Star (1969)
  • Ali's Smile (1971)
  • Mayfair Academy Series More or Less (1973)
  • White Subway (1973) - later included in The Burroughs File
  • The Book of Breeething (1974)
  • Snack... (ISBN 0-85652-014-4) (1975)
  • Cobble Stone Gardens (1976) - later included in The Burroughs File
  • Blade Runner (a movie) (1979) (ISBN 0-912652-46-2)
  • Dr. Benway (1979)
  • Die Alten Filme (The Old Movies) (1979) - later included in The Burroughs File
  • Streets of Chance (1981)
  • Early Routines (1981)
  • Sinki's Sauna (1982)
  • Ruski (1984)
  • The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1984)
  • The Cat Inside (1986)
  • The Whole Tamale (c.1987-88)
  • Interzone (1989) (ISBN 0-14-009451-2)
  • Tornado Alley (1989)
  • Ghost of Chance (1991) (ISBN 1-85242-457-5)
  • Seven Deadly Sins (1992)
  • Paper Cloud; Thick Pages (1992)

Collections

  • Interzone (written mid-1950s, published 1988) (ISBN 978-0140094510)
  • Roosevelt After Inauguration and Other Atrocities (1965)
  • Dead Fingers Talk (1963) - excerpts from Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine and The Ticket That Exploded combined together to create a new narrative
  • Exterminator! (1973) (ISBN 0-14-005003-5) (a different book from the 1960 collaboration with Brion Gysin)
  • Ali's Smile: Naked Scientology (1978)
  • Ah Pook is Here, Nova Express, Cities of the Red Night (1981) (ISBN 0-312-27846-2)
  • The Burroughs File (1984)
  • The Adding Machine: Collected Essays (1985) (ISBN 1-55970-210-9)
  • Three Novels - Grove Press omnibus of The Soft Machine, Nova Express and The Wild Boys (1988) (ISBN 0802130844)
  • Uncommon Quotes Vol. 1 (1989)
  • Word Virus: The William Burroughs Reader (1998) (ISBN 0-00-655214-5)[1]
  • Conversations with William S. Burroughs (2000) (ISBN 1578061830)
  • Burroughs Live : The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997 (2000) (ISBN 1-58435-010-5)

Collaborations

Film collaborations

The Final Academy Documents, with experimental film collaborations of Brion Gysin, Antony Balch, John Giorno, and others, based on a tour organized by David Dawson, Roger Ely, and Genesis P-Orridge. A DVD of edited highlights from the tour, including Burroughs's 1982 appearance reading from his work at Manchester's The Haçienda, a performance by Giorno and includes the experimental film collaborations with Balch, Gysin, and others, Towers Open Fire and Ghosts at No. 9.[2][3][4]

Burroughs appeared as himself in a number of films in the 1980s and 1990s, including the 1986 Laurie Anderson concert film Home of the Brave (in which Burroughs dances a slow-motion tango with Anderson during one number and provides vocal samples in other parts of the film), and the documentaries Heavy Petting and What Happened to Kerouac?

Burroughs also played a cameo part in the film Drugstore Cowboy, and his recording of The Junky's Christmas formed the basis for a 1993 animated short film of the same title in which Burroughs himself appears. He collaborated on the documentary Words of Advice: William S. Burroughs on the Road eventually released in 2007. An animated short film based upon his story "Ah Pook is Here" has also been produced.

Gus Van Sant made a short film in 1981 based on Burroughs's "The Discipline of DE".

Recordings (partial list)

References

  1. ↑ James Grauerholz. Word Virus, New York: Grove, 1998
  2. ↑ "UbuWeb Sound :: William S. Burroughs". Ubu.com. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
  3. ↑ "U B U W E B : William S. Burroughs Films". Ubu.com. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
  4. ↑ "U B U W E B :: William S. Burroughs". Ubu.com. Retrieved 2013-10-01.

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