RealityStudio is the web’s leading resource dedicated to William S. Burroughs and the underground press in the 1960s.
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CUT-UPS@60 is a conference to be held in London and Paris, September 2020, honoring the 60th anniversary of the invention of the cut-up technique. Watch this space for more detail.
RealityStudio is proud to make Michael Stevens’ The Road to Interzone: Reading William S. Burroughs Reading available as a free PDF download. Road to Interzone, a bibliography of Burroughs’ reading, is one of the indispensable reference works on the author.
Scientology Revisited is a rare Scientology pamphlet reproducing one of William Burroughs’ texts from Mayfair magazine.
A small archive of correspondence between Giorno Poetry Project and COIL documenting the literary community’s response to the AIDS crisis.
L’Internationale Hallucinex, a pamphlet containing French translations of William Burroughs’ “Invisible Generation,” as well as texts by Claude Pélieu and Carl Weissner.
With many thanks to Michael Stevens, the listing of blurbs which William Burroughs furnished for others’ books is now almost complete.
Documents on the Death of Joan Vollmer Burroughs
The Top 23 Most Interesting Burroughs Collectibles (2015-2016) by Jed Birmingham
- #23: The Dead Star
- #22: Am Here Books Catalogue 5
- #21: Man’s Wildcat Adventures (Podcast)
- #20: The Exterminator
- #19: Cyclops
- #18: Semina 4
- #17: Aspen 5+6
- #16: Klacto 23 International
- #15: Suck
- #14: “The Invisible Generation” Poster
- #13: The Olympia Naked Lunch
- #12: Roosevelt after Inauguration
- #11: The Hardiment/Crowder Archive
- #10: The Digit Junkie
- #9: The Soft Machine (Olympia Press Edition)
- #8: Time
- #7: St Valentine’s Day Reading Program
- #6: Call Me Burroughs LP
- #5: The Moving Times Poster, Project Sigma
- #4: Urgency Press Ripoff Edition of Time
- #3: The Fuck You Press APO-33
- #2: My Own Mag #12
- #1: A Descriptive Catalogue of the William S. Burroughs Archive
Sections
- Bibliographic Bunker by Jed Birmingham
- Texts by William S. Burroughs
- Interviews
- Biography
- Scholarship
- Criticism
- Bibliography by Eric Shoaf
- Forum
Archives
- APO-33 by William S. Burroughs
- Arcade
- Black Mountain Review
- Burroughs in Men’s Mags
- Burroughs Text in January 1960 Mademoiselle
- Bulletin from Nothing
- C Press
- Cleft
- Evergreen Review
- Floating Bear
- Fuck You Press
- Intrepid
- Kulchur
- The Last Times
- Lines
- Locus Solus
- My Own Mag
- Nova Broadcast
- Rhinozeros
- Time by William S. Burroughs
- The Word (Naked Lunch Outtake) in Swank
- Yugen
Authors
Publications
- Death in Paris by Carl Weissner
- The Fluke by Jacques Stern
- Flesh Film by Jürgen Ploog
- Retaking the Universe by Davis Schneiderman, Philip Walsh, Edward S. Robinson
- The Road to Interzone: Reading William S. Burroughs Reading by Michael Stevens
Popular
- The Mouth Inside: The Voices of Naked Lunch by Ian MacFadyen
- Burroughs / Balch Video Experiment by Jan Herman and William S. Burroughs
- Enter Mister Maurice by William Levy
- Burroughs in London by Heathcote Williams
- Towers Open Fire Screenplay
- William S. Burroughs and J.G. Ballard
- A Word Is a Word Is a Collage (1965)
- William S. Burroughs, Jacques Stern, and The Fluke
- Confusion’s Masterpiece: Re-Editing William S. Burroughs’ First Trilogy by Oliver Harris
- From Dr Mabuse to Doc Benway: The Myths and Manuscripts of Naked Lunch by Oliver Harris
- Cutting up the Archive: William Burroughs and the Composite Text by Oliver Harris
- A Visit to William S. Burroughs at the Beat Hotel in Summer, 1958 by Gael Turnbull
- Death in Paris by Carl Weissner
- Hikuta!: Burroughs and His Guns
- William S. Burroughs and Joy Division
- Henry Miller and William Burroughs: A Letter
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