Burroughs and Beats in Men’s Magazines: William Burroughs Appearances in Adult Men’s Magazines

Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker

Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting

This list is by no means comprehensive, although I attempted to make it as complete as possible. I combed through Maynard & Miles and Eric Shoaf’s Checklist marking down all the men’s magazines with William Burroughs fiction, essays, or interviews. I took adult men’s magazines to be glossy magazines with a mixture of nude pictorials, fiction, and lifestyle articles. Basically, they are skin or porno mags; be it girlie or gay.

The key element to this list is the glossy Time / Life magazine format mixed with the nude photos. As a result, the Mayfair Academy Rip-off of 1973 did not make the list although this publication would be a nice addition to a Beat / men’s magazine collection and is a simple way to get a hold of the many Mayfair articles in one place. I did not include Olympia Magazine or the later issues of Evergreen Review (especially the issues of the late 1960s) which flirt with the men’s magazine format but remain literary magazines at heart. I also listed gay magazines (a men’s magazine from a different bent if you will), most notably Playgirl, to show the changing ways Burroughs’ image and works could be utilized. In some cases, I just was not sure if the magazine was in fact a glossy men’s magazine at all. I listed Suck, National Screw, and Blueboy, for example. National Screw started as a newspaper tabloid format like an underground sex paper, but morphed into a glossy after a couple of issues. I know little about Suck and Blueboy but they clearly are sex-oriented magazines and they tell an interesting story about Burroughs so I included them. Any additions to this list would be greatly appreciated as well as a brief write up describing its contents both Burroughs related and otherwise.

William Burroughs in Wildcat Adventures

	Excerpt from Junkie Man’s Wildcat Adventures (Front Cover) Volume 1, No. 1, pp 23-25, 47, 55-72. New York: June 1959 (35 cents)
	Excerpt from Junkie Man’s Wildcat Adventures (First Page of Burroughs Text) Volume 1, No. 1, pp 23-25, 47, 55-72. New York: June 1959 (35 cents)

William Burroughs in Swank

	“The Word” Swank (Front cover) Vol. 8, no. 3: 51-55. New York: July 1961 (50 cents).
	“The Word” Swank (Introduction by John Fles) Vol. 8, no. 3: 51-55. New York: July 1961 (50 cents).
	“The Word” Swank (Burroughs text, page 1) Vol. 8, no. 3: 51-55. New York: July 1961 (50 cents).
	“The Word” Swank (Burroughs text, page 2) Vol. 8, no. 3: 51-55. New York: July 1961 (50 cents).

William Burroughs in Mayfair

	“Interview” and “The Future of Sex and Drugs” (The Burroughs Academy Bulletin 1) Mayfair Vol. 2, No. 10, pp 11-15. London: October 1967
	“The Engram Theory” (The Burroughs Academy Bulletin 2) Mayfair Vol. 2, No. 11, pp 28-31. London: November 1967
	“Where’s Our Killer Whistle?” (The Burroughs Academy Bulletin 3) Mayfair Vol. 2, No. 12, pp 54-56. London: December 1967
	“Scientology Revisited” (The Burroughs Academy Bulletin 4) Mayfair Vol. 3, No. 1, pp 29-31. London: January 1968
	“The Last Broadcast” (The Burroughs Academy Bulletin 5) Mayfair Vol. 3, No. 2, pp 28-29. London: February 1968
	“By Far The Most Efficient and Precise Language We Possess is the Common Cold” (The Burroughs Academy Bulletin 6) Mayfair Vol. 3, No. 3, 54-56. London: March 1968
	“The Fire Breaks Out” (The Burroughs Academy Bulletin 7) Mayfair Vol. 3, No. 4, pp 32-34. London: April 1968
	“In That Year of 1969, Astonished Motorists Were Hustled at Random into the Death Cells for Parking Offenses” (The Burroughs Academy Bulletin 8) Mayfair Vol. 3, No. 5, pp 54-55. London: May 1968
	“Switch On and Be Your Own Hero” (The Burroughs Academy Bulletin 9) Mayfair Vol. 3, No. 6, 52-54. London: June 1968
	“The Academy’s Ultimate Offer — Immunity to Death” (The Burroughs Academy Bulletin 10) Mayfair Vol. 3, No. 7, 52-54. London: July 1968
	“Do You Remember Tomorrow?” (The Burroughs Academy Bulletin 11) Mayfair Vol. 3, No. 8, pp. 28-29. London: August 1968
	“Oh God, Get Me Out of This!” (The Burroughs Academy Bulletin 12) Mayfair Vol. 3, No. 9, pp. 32-34. London: September 1968
	“Wind Die You Die We Die” (The Burroughs Academy Bulletin 13) Mayfair Vol. 3, No. 10, pp 52-53, 62. London: October 1968
	“Man, You Voted for a Goddam Ape” (The Burroughs Academy Bulletin 14) Mayfair Vol. 3, No. 12, pp 52-54. London: December 1968
	“Rally Around the Secrets, Boys” (The Burroughs Academy Bulletin 15) Mayfair Vol. 4, No. 1, pp 52-54. London: January 1969
	“Infiltration” (The Burroughs Academy Bulletin 16) Mayfair Vol. 4, No. 2, pp 52-53. London: February 1969
	“The Brain Grinders” (The Burroughs Academy Bulletin 17) Mayfair Vol. 4, No. 4, pp 32-34. London: April 1969
	“I’m Scared, I’m Scared, I’m Not” (The Burroughs Academy Bulletin 18) Mayfair Vol. 4, No. 5, pp 52-54. London: May 1969
	“The Final Crusade of the Veteran Warriors” (The Burroughs Academy Bulletin 19) Mayfair Vol. 4, No. 6, pp 52-54, 56, 58. London: June 1969
	“The Voracious Aliens” (The Burroughs Academy Bulletin 20) Mayfair Vol. 4, No. 8, 32-34. London: August 1969
	“Days of Great Luxury Are Coming Back” (The Burroughs Academy Bulletin 21) Mayfair Vol. 4, No. 9, 54-56. London: September 1969
	“My Challenge to Scientology” Mayfair Vol. 5, No. 1. London: January 1970
	“The Transplant Apocalypse” Mayfair Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 32-33. London: February 1970
	“Without Your Name, Who Are You?” Mayfair Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 52-54. London: March 1970
	“And a Final Word From William Burroughs” Mayfair Vol. 5, No. 6, pp. 36. London: June 1970
	“D.E. My Super Efficiency System” Mayfair Vol. 5, No. 7, pp. 52-54. London: July 1970
	“Twilights Last Gleamings” Mayfair Vol. 5, No. 12, pp 61-62. London: December 1970
	Mayfair Academy (More or Less) Urgency Press Rip Off, 1973 Contains ten of the Burroughs “Academy Bulletins” from Mayfair

William Burroughs and Malcolm Mc Neill in National Screw

	“Los Niños Locos” National Screw June 1977
	“Los Niños Locos” National Screw June 1977
	“Day Is Done” National Screw August 1977
	“Day Is Done” National Screw August 1977

William Burroughs in Various Men’s Mags

	“Prophet or Pornographer” Jaguar New York: January 1966. (Interview with Jaguar Staff)
	“Exterminator!” King pp 58-60. London: July 1966 (7s 6d)
	“O Say Can You See If Bently’s Who He Appears to Be?” Cavalier Vol 18, No. 12, pp 43, 57. New York: October 1968 (60 cents)
	“William Burroughs ‘I’ve Noticed a Regrettable Vagueness in Accounts of Hallucinogenic Drugs. In Time I Think These Just Lead to a Sort of Dreamland State” Penthouse Vol. 3, No. 7, pp 44,46, 52. New York: March 1972. (reprint of June 1971 Interview)
	“Face to Face with the Goat God” Oui 2, No. 8, pp 68, 92, 94. Chicago: August 1973

Jack Kerouac in Escapade and Mayfair

	Kerouac on our “bloody mad history” Escapade February 1960
	Kerouac on the Berlin Question Escapade April 1960
	Kerouac on Zen Escapade October 1960
	Kerouac on Jazz Escapade December 1960
	Kerouac on Cody and the Road Escapade April 1961
	Kerouac “In the Ring” Mayfair November 1968

More Burroughs in Men’s Mags

“Discussion Playboy Panel: The Drug Revolution”, Playboy Magazine, 17, No. 2, pp 53-74, 200-201. Chicago: February 1970 ($1.00)

“William Burroughs: Mind Engineer”, Penthouse, 6, No. 6, pp 37-40, 60. London: June 1971 (30p). (Interview with Graham Masterson and Andrew Rossabi)

“The Penny Arcade Peep Show / The Wild Boys Smile”, Suck, 5, pp 10, 15. Amsterdam: Summer 1971

“Blue Movie/Who Are These Boys?”, Suck, 6, pp 15-16. Amsterdam: 1971

“William Burroughs Takes a Look at Sex Films”, Suck, 6, p 15. Amsterdam: 1971

“First Meetings: One Dozen Memories from the Files of William Burroughs”, National Screw, April 1977. Taken from discussions with Victor Bockris

“Los Ninos Locos”, National Screw, Vol. 1, No. 7. June 1977. Part of Port of Saints

“Day is Done”, National Screw, August 1977. First issue as a glossy magazine

“My Life on Orgone Boxes”, Oui Magazine, October 1977

“The Health Officer”, Club Magazine, October 1977.

“Women: A Biological Mistake?”, Playgirl Magazine, March 1978.

“Dear Allen…Love Bill”, Blueboy, April 1978.

“Dinner with Andy and Bill”, Blueboy, October 1980. Interview with Warhol and Burroughs

William S. Burroughs in Men’s Magazines

• Burroughs and Beats in Men’s Magazines: Introduction
• Burroughs in Men’s Magazines
• William Burroughs Appearances in Adult Men’s Magazines
• William Burroughs’ Word in Swank