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

What’s New

William S. Burroughs, “California Men,” in In Touch magazine, has been added to the Men’s Magazines archive. Direct download here.

William Burroughs and Cigarettes by Jed Birmingham

Joshua Kotin contributes The Fuck You Press Cantos: A Census

Don’t Hide the Madness by Jed Birmingham

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

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