RealityStudio is the web’s leading resource dedicated to William S. Burroughs and the underground press in the 1960s.
What’s New
Jed fills in a gap on RealityStudio with an archive of Big Table covers
Jed Birmingham offers a partial archive of the The Evergreen Club News
Find of the Week by Jed Birmingham
- Anarchy
- The Optics Press Fuck You
- Henri Chopin’s “Poster for Burroughs“
- Book Catalogues on eBay
- Auerhahn Press Books in Print Poster 1964
- Rat
- I Call Bullshit (on a “Signed” Calder Naked Lunch)
- Doctor Benway: A Variant Passage from The Naked Lunch
- Patti Smith’s Witt
- Amsterdam Annual
- Psychomontage
- I Call Bullshit (on Officially Graded Mayfairs)
- John Giorno Photos
The Visible Man by Jed Birmingham:
- Rock Stars
- Guns
- Chicago 1968
- Paris: The Naked City
- Myth
- Tangier 1957
- New York City 1953
- Drugs
- Writing
- Love and Death
- Fatherhood
Eric C. Shoaf contributes Collectability in Question? Letter from a Master Addict
Interview with Michael Goodman, author of Burroughs bibliographies and Contemporary Literary Censorship: The Case History of Burroughs’ Naked Lunch.
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
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
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