Scholarship

The Frisco Kid He Never Returns: Naked Lunch and San Francisco

Author Oliver Harris
Date 21 November 2009
Subject Oliver Harris looks at the relationship — or non-relationship? — between Naked Lunch and San Francisco in a transcript to the talk given at the San Francisco Art Institute during the NL@50 homage.
Link The Frisco Kid He Never Returns: Naked Lunch and San Francisco

From Dr Mabuse to Doc Benway: The Myths and Manuscripts of Naked Lunch

Author Oliver Harris
Date 26 October 2009
Subject Oliver Harris dissects the myths behind the creation of Naked Lunch in a transcript to the talk given recently at Columbia University during the NL@50 homage.
Link From Dr Mabuse to Doc Benway: The Myths and Manuscripts of Naked Lunch

Cutting up the Archive: William Burroughs and the Composite Text

Author Oliver Harris
Date 2007
Subject Edited version of a paper delivered by Professor Harris to the 4th Annual Symposium on Textual Studies at the Centre for Textual Scholarship, De Montfort University, Leicester
Link Cutting up the Archive: William Burroughs and the Composite Text

Henry Miller and William Burroughs: An Overview

Author RealityStudio
Date 2007
Subject Overview of the relationship (or non-relationship?) between Henry Miller and William S. Burroughs
Link Henry Miller and William Burroughs: An Overview

Everything Lost, the Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs: The Inside Story

Author Oliver Harris
Date December 2007
Subject The “inside story” of the editing of an important Burroughs notebook.
Link Everything Lost, the Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs: The Inside Story

The Holy Shit of Burroughs and Kerouac

Author Oliver Harris
Date December 2008
Subject Re-presentation of the plenary address given by Professor Harris to the Conference “Kerouac’s On the Road: The Beats and the Post-Beats”
Link The Holy Shit of Burroughs and Kerouac

Burroughs Literary Archive

Author Ken Lopez
Date 2006
Subject Excerpt from the catalogue prepared by bookseller Ken Lopez for the sale of the Burroughs archive to the New York Public Library
Link Burroughs Literary Archive

Transitional Period vs Gongs of Violence

Author RealityStudio
Date 2006
Subject Side-by-side comparison of two versions of a Burroughs cut-up called “Gongs of Violence”
Link Transitional Period vs Gongs of Violence

¿Quien Es?

Author Jorge Cuevas Cid
Date September 2006
Subject Overview of International Burroughs Symposium held in Mexico City in September 2006
Link ¿Quien Es?

“Giving Away the Basic American Rottenness”

Author A. D. Parkinson
Date 2005
Subject Thesis showing the extent to which Naked Lunch is a historical document of its times
Link “Giving Away the Basic American Rottenness”
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