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

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In Memoriam: Johnny Strike by Bill Given

William Burroughs and Cigarettes by Jed Birmingham

Joshua Kotin contributes The Fuck You Press Cantos: A Census

The William Mix by Jed Birmingham

Don’t Hide the Madness by Jed Birmingham

Irving Rosenthal: Your Money or Your Life by Alastair Johnston

RealityStudio reviews William Burroughs’ “The Revised Boy Scout Manual”: An Electronic Revolution, forthcoming from Ohio State University Press.

Crawdaddy Archive by Jed Birmingham

CUT-UPS@60 is a conference to be held in London and Paris, September 2020, honoring the 60th anniversary of the invention of the cut-up technique. Watch this space for more detail.

RealityStudio is proud to make Michael Stevens’ The Road to Interzone: Reading William S. Burroughs Reading available as a free PDF download. Road to Interzone, a bibliography of Burroughs’ reading, is one of the indispensable reference works on the author.

The Top 23 Most Interesting Burroughs Collectibles (2015-2016) by Jed Birmingham

• #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

Sections

• Bibliographic Bunker by Jed Birmingham
• Texts by William S. Burroughs
• Interviews
• Biography
• Scholarship
• Criticism
• Bibliography by Eric Shoaf
• Forum

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
• Nova Broadcast
• Rhinozeros
• Time by William S. Burroughs
• The Word (Naked Lunch Outtake) in Swank
• Yugen

Authors

• William S. Burroughs
• Jed Birmingham
• Oliver Harris
• Ian MacFadyen

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

• 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: A Letter