This is a bibliography of the works of William S. Burroughs.
Novels and other long fiction
- Junkie (a.k.a. Junky) (1953) (ISBN 0-14-200316-6 – later reprint)
- Queer (written 1951–1953; published 1985) (ISBN 0-14-008389-8)
- Naked Lunch (1959) (ISBN 0-8021-3295-2)
- The Nova Trilogy (1961-1967):
- The Soft Machine (1961–1966)[1] (ISBN 0-8021-3329-0)
- The Ticket That Exploded (1962–1967)[2] (ISBN 0-8021-5150-7)
- Nova Express (1964) (ISBN 0-8021-3330-4)
- Dead Fingers Talk (1963) (ISBN 9780426050049) – sections of Naked Lunch, Soft Machine, and Ticket that Exploded re-arranged into a new narrative. Often erroneously called a compilation because of this.
- The Last Words of Dutch Schultz (1969) (ISBN 1-55970-211-7)
- The London Trilogy (1971-1973):
- The Wild Boys: A book of the dead (1971) (ISBN 0-8021-3331-2)
- Exterminator! (1973) (ISBN 0-14-005003-5) (a different book from the 1960 collaboration with Brion Gysin)
- Port of Saints (1973) (ISBN 0-912652-64-0)
- The Red Night Trilogy (1981–1987):
- Cities of the Red Night (1981) (ISBN 0-03-053976-5)[3]
- The Place of Dead Roads (1983) (ISBN 0-312-27865-9)
- The Western Lands (1987) (ISBN 0-14-009456-3)
- My Education: A Book of Dreams (1995) (ISBN 0-14-009454-7)
Note: Burroughs published revised and rewritten editions of several of the above novels, including The Soft Machine and The Ticket that Exploded, while re-edited versions of some books such as Junkie and Naked Lunch have been published posthumously.
Non-fiction and letters
- "Letter From A Master Addict To Dangerous Drugs," British Journal of Addiction, Vol. 53, No. 2, 3 August 1956
- The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs (1969) (ISBN 0-14-011882-9) (with Daniel Odier; includes additional texts by Burroughs)
- Jack Kerouac (1970) (with Claude Pelieu)
- The Electronic Revolution (1971)
- "Foreword" (1974) to Mohamed Choukri's Jean Genet in Tangier (SBN 912-94608-3)
- The Retreat Diaries (1976) - later included in The Burroughs File
- Letters to Allen Ginsberg 1953-1957 (1976)
- The Adding Machine: Collected Essays (1985) (ISBN 1-55970-210-9)
- Selected Letters (1993)
- The Letters of William S. Burroughs 1945-1959 (1993) (ISBN 978-0330330749)
- Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs (2000; ISBN 0-8021-3778-4)
- Conversations with William S. Burroughs (2000) (ISBN 1578061830)
- Burroughs Live : The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997 (2000) (ISBN 1-58435-010-5)
- Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs (2007; ISBN 978-0-8142-1080-2)
- Rub Out The Words: The Letters of William S. Burroughs 1959-1974 (2012) (ISBN 978-1-846-14167-6)
Stories and novellas
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Collections
Collaborations
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Film collaborations
The Final Academy Documents, with experimental film collaborations of Brion Gysin, Antony Balch, John Giorno, and others, based on a tour organized by David Dawson, Roger Ely, and Genesis P-Orridge. A DVD of edited highlights from the tour, including Burroughs's 1982 appearance reading from his work at Manchester's The Haçienda, a performance by Giorno and includes the experimental film collaborations with Balch, Gysin, and others, Towers Open Fire and Ghosts at No. 9.[6][7][8]
Burroughs appeared as himself in a number of films in the 1980s and 1990s, including the 1986 Laurie Anderson concert film Home of the Brave (in which Burroughs dances a slow-motion tango with Anderson during one number and provides vocal samples in other parts of the film), and the documentaries Heavy Petting and What Happened to Kerouac?
Burroughs also played a cameo part in the film Drugstore Cowboy, and his recording of The Junky's Christmas formed the basis for a 1993 animated short film of the same title in which Burroughs himself appears. He collaborated on the documentary Words of Advice: William S. Burroughs on the Road eventually released in 2007. An animated short film based upon his story "Ah Pook is Here" has also been produced.
Gus Van Sant made a short film in 1981 based on Burroughs's "The Discipline of DE".
Recordings (partial list)
- Call Me Burroughs (1965) - The English Bookshop, Paris (reissued in 1995)
- Long song for Zelda (1971) - by Dashiell Hedayat and Gong, LP shandar record production SR83512, Paris, ( reedited as a CD in 1992 and 2008 on "Mantra production"), Obsolete, Burroughs says a sentence of 10 seconds at the end of track at the 7'32 mark.
- The Nova Convention (1979) by Burroughs and others - LP GPS
- Nothing Here Now But The Recordings (1981) with Brion Gysin - LP Industrial Records IR0016
- You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With (1981) with John Giorno and Laurie Anderson - LP GPS
- Mister Heartbreak (1984) by Laurie Anderson - Burroughs reads "Sharkey's Night"
- The Elvis of Letters (1985) with Gus van Sant
- Home of the Brave (1986) by Laurie Anderson - Burroughs sample is used in the song "Late Show"
- UnCommon Quotes (1986) - Recorded at CARAVAN of DREAMS, September 11, 1986 (ISBN 0 929856 00 7); cassette only; includes foldout essay "William S. Burroughs: A Shift in Vision" by Robert Palmer
- Break Through In Grey Room (1986) - A collection of readings and cutups - Sub Rosa Records
- Smack My Crack (1987) with Tom Waits and various artists - LP GPS
- Like A Girl I Want To Keep Coming (1989) by John Giorno - LP GPS
- Seven Souls (1989) by Material - remixed in 1998 as The Road to the Western Lands
- Dead City Radio (1990) - Island Records
- Millions of Images (1990) with Gus Van Sant
- The "Priest" they called him (1992) - Burroughs narrates and Kurt Cobain plays guitar
- "Just One Fix" (1992) from the Ministry album Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs - Burroughs reads "Quick Fix" and created the cover art
- The Black Rider (1992) - Musical co-authored with Tom Waits and Robert Wilson, sings on "T'ain't No Sin"
- Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales with The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy (1993) - Island Records
- "Words Of Advice" on the Material album Hallucination Engine (1994)
- The Dark Eye (1995), Voices the character "Uncle Edwin", also narration of Annabel Lee and Masque of the Red Death. Burroughs' only video game role.[9]
- 10%: File under Burroughs (1996) - 2-CD set, produced by Frank Rynne and Joe Ambrose, Sub Rosa
- Songs in the Key of X (1996) and In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003 bonus disc (2003) - Burroughs vocal over an instrumental version of R.E.M.'s "Star Me Kitten"
- Stoned Immaculate: The Music of the Doors (2000) - Burroughs reads poetry by Jim Morrison over music by The Doors on "Is Everybody In?"
References
- ↑ Burroughs revised the novel for a second edition in 1966.
- ↑ Burroughs revised the novel for a second edition in 1967.
- ↑ Burroughs, William S. (2013). Cities of the Red Night: A Novel (illustrated ed.). Holt Paperbacks. p. 110. ISBN 978-1466856608. Retrieved 17 May 2014.
- ↑ Burroughs, William S. "Time". Reality Studio. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
- ↑ James Grauerholz. Word Virus, New York: Grove, 1998
- ↑ "UbuWeb Sound :: William S. Burroughs". Ubu.com. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
- ↑ "U B U W E B : William S. Burroughs Films". Ubu.com. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
- ↑ "U B U W E B :: William S. Burroughs". Ubu.com. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
- ↑ "William S. Burroughs". MobyGames. Retrieved October 17, 2020.
External links
- Containing 1,077 numbered entries, Anything but Routine: A Selectively Annotated Bibliography of William S. Burroughs v. 2.0 by Brian E.C. Schottlaender of UC San Diego Libraries lists many more works by Burroughs