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William S. Burroughs

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"And we all die and the stars will go out one after another . . ."
— William S. Burroughs

Wm. S. Burroughs catalog at Amazon.com
Wm. S. Burroughs search at Amazon.com (includes works by others)
Wm. S. Burroughs spoken word recordings at Amazon

Wm. S. Burroughs entry at Wikipedia
Wm. S. Burroughs credits at Internet Movie Database

Links

MH's Wm. S. Burroughs fansite
W.S.B. iZine
W.S.B. page at LitKicks
AF's W.S.B. photo gallery
W.S.B. soundbite 'the truth is irrelevant..."
MG's 'Ghost of W.S.B.' soundbites
1961 interview by Corso & Ginsberg
W.S.B. links at Blue Neon Alley
downloadable W.S.B. videos (.wvx format)
a few Burroughs quotations
W.S.B. Internet Database
W.S.B. poem "A Thanksgiving Prayer"
The Beat Hotel & Wm. S. Burroughs Museum in Desert Hot Springs, CA

Beatnik Film Festival
includes movies & videos about other beats, plus rare & obscure films

Books by Wm. S. Burroughs

"Junkie" [1953]

"Queer" [written 1951-3; published 1985]

"Naked Lunch" [Olympia 1959]

	listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Novels (10/2005) Grove Press 8¼x5¼ pb [2/92] for $9.56 TimeWarner ABR audio [12/95] out of stock/used 'restored text' version Edited by James Grauerholz & Barry Miles Grove Press hardcover [11/2001] for $24.00
	"Naked Lunch" feature film [Dec 1991] Written & directed by David Cronenberg; starring Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands & Roy Scheider Criterion widescreen DVD [11/2003] for $28.99 Fox color VHS [6/92] for $28.48 Milan Records soundtrack CD [2/92] for $13.98 full credits from IMDb

"The Soft Machine" [Olympia 1961]

Grove Press 8¼x5¼ pb [9/92] for $9.60

"The Ticket That Exploded" [1962]

"Dead Fingers Talk" [1963]
excerpts from "Naked Lunch", "The Soft Machine" and "The Ticket That Exploded"
combined together to create a new narrative

"Nova Express" [Grove 1964]

Grove Press 8¼x5¼ pb [9/92] for $10.40

"The Last Words of Dutch Schultz" [1969]

"The Wild Boys: A Book Of The Dead" [Grove 1971]

Grove Press 8¼x5¼ pb [9/92] for $10.40

"Port of Saints" [1973]

"Sidetripping" [1975] by Charles Gatewood, text by William S. Burroughs Last Gasp 10x10 pb [12/2001] for $0.00 Penthouse Books ltd edition hardcover [1975] not listed at Amazon

"Cities of The Red Night" [1981]

"The Place of Dead Roads" [1983]

"The Western Lands" [1987]

"My Education: A Book of Dreams" [1995]

Works about Wm. S. Burroughs

	"Cursed From Birth: The Short, Unhappy Life of William S. Burroughs, Jr." [2006] by William S. Burroughs Jr., edited & compiled by David Ohle Soft Skull Press 8¼x5½ pb [10/2006] for $11.16
	"The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs & Corso In Paris, 1957-1963" [2000] by Barry Miles Grove Press pb [7/2001] for $11.20 Grove Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [7/2000] for $17.50
	"Beat" [video release April 2000] Written & directed by Gary Walkow; starring Kiefer Sutherland, Courtney Love, Norman Reedus, Ron Livingston & Daniel Martínez An account of the events in Mexico in 1951 between Bill Burroughs, his wife Joan Vollmer, Allen Ginsberg, Lucien Carr and others that resulted in the accidental (maybe) shooting death of Joan Lions Gate widescreen DVD [10/2002] for $13.48 full credits from IMDb
	"Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs" [1988] by Ted Morgan Avon 8x5¼ pb [3/90] out of print/used Henry Holt hardcover [10/88] out of print/used

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