RealityStudio is the web’s leading resource dedicated to William S. Burroughs and the underground press in the 1960s.
What’s New
James Grauerholz, who for more than 50 years managed William S. Burroughs’ career and oversaw his estate, passed away on Jan 1 2026. James was collegial and supportive toward RealityStudio. We send our thoughts to his loved ones. For more information, see the obituary by Oliver Harris on Substack or the Allen Ginsberg Estate’s post on Instagram.
Mapping the Secret Location: Postings on the Ed Sanders Archive at Princeton University is a new section on RealityStudio dedicated to exploring the Ed Sanders Papers at Princeton. Check out the first posts by Jed Birmingham and Keaton Studebaker.
Sections
- Bibliographic Bunker by Jed Birmingham
- Mapping the Secret Location
- Texts by William S. Burroughs
- Interviews
- Biography
- Scholarship
- Criticism
- Bibliography by Eric Shoaf
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
- Nomad
- 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
- Secrets of the Olympia Press Naked Lunch
- 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: An Overview
The Top 23 Most Interesting Burroughs Collectibles
- #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