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William S. Burroughs with a copy of Naked Lunch at the Beat Hotel, 1959

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Matías Bragagnolo offers an excerpt from the book Pull my Daisy y otras experimentaciones. La Generación Beat y el cine in English translation. The excerpt, “The Exterminator, They Called Him,” offers an overview of the various attempts to make a film of Naked Lunch.

Dave Teeuwen interviews Jennie Skerl about her pioneering work on William Burroughs and the Beats.

Christophe Becker offers another installment of his series Cyberkampf. The first and second installments were interviews with Klaus Maeck around the film Decoder. This third installment offers an interview with Raf Valvola and Gomma about how Decoder inspired their own underground magazine of the same name.

Michael Stevens offers a 2022 update to his classic Road to Interzone. Download the pdf at the Road to Interzone page.

RealityStudio is proud to present an interview with Chris Stein of Blondie about his relationship with William S. Burroughs.

Dave Teeuwen interviews Davis Schneiderman on his forthcoming project, a collaboration with Marcus Boon and the Burroughs Estate on a reconstructed edition of The Third Mind.

Thom Robinson takes a deep dive into the relationship of William S. Burroughs and his “favorite” writer in “Beyond the Grave: William Burroughs and Denton Welch.”

Jed Birmingham on the seven greatest Burroughs collectors.

Have you wondered what William S Burroughs would have made of the pandemic? Edward S. Robinson takes a mighty swing at the answer in Predicting a Pandemic: William Burroughs and Covid-19.

Moloko Print has just put out three new must-have Burroughs books. The first is a new edition of Minutes to Go and the second is a new edition of The Exterminator — two foundational cut-up works which have been newly edited and contextualized by Oliver Harris. The third is a 1960 cut-up work titled BATTLE INSTRUCTIONS. Never before published, this “new” work has also been artfully assembled and edited by Oliver Harris.

The new edition of Dead Fingers Talk: The Restored Text, edited and introduced by Oliver Harris, is available for order from the publisher Alma Books.

A review of the brilliant BATTLE INSTRUCTIONS by William S. Burroughs, newly published by Moloko Print.

On the 61st anniversary of the book’s publication, RealityStudio is proud to share “Secrets of the Olympia Press Naked Lunch.” Pirates, print run, points of distinction — what you thought you knew about the publication history of Naked Lunch was wrong.

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