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RealityStudio is the web’s leading resource dedicated to William S. Burroughs and the underground press in the 1960s.

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

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Matthew Levi Stevens reviews Victor Bockris’ new book The Burroughs-Warhol Connection recently released by Beatdom Books.

David Holzer ferrets out the connections between William Burroughs’ cut-up technique and Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music.

Oliver Harris reviews Luca Guadagnino’s new film of William Burroughs’ Queer and Christophe Becker chats with Klaus Maeck about a reading of Queer he arranged in Mexico City.

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Archives

  • APO-33 by William S. Burroughs
  • Arcade
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  • The Word (Naked Lunch Outtake) in Swank
  • Yugen

Authors

  • William S. Burroughs
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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

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