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William S. Burroughs
William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914(1914-02-05) – August 2, 1997; pronounced /ˈbʌroʊz/) was an American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer. Much of Burroughs's work is semi-autobiographical, drawn from his experiences as an opiate addict, a condition that...
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Naked Lunch
Naked Lunch (sometimes referred to as The Naked Lunch) is a novel by William S. Burroughs originally published in 1959.
The book was originally published with the title The Naked Lunch in Paris in July, 1959 by Olympia Press. Because of US obscenity...
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- 1959
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- 1959
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Nova Express
Nova Express is a 1964 novel by William S. Burroughs, the plot of which cannot easily be described. It was written using Burroughs' "cut-up method" of enfolding snippets of different texts into the novel, including T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land,...
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- 1964
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- 1964
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- 1453
The Soft Machine
The Soft Machine is the title of a novel by William S. Burroughs, first published in 1961 and was Burroughs' first novel after the groundbreaking publication of Naked Lunch. It was originally composed using the cut-up and fold-in techniques from...
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- 1961
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- 13423
The Black Rider
The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets is a self-billed "musical fable" in the avant-garde tradition created through the collaboration of theatre director Robert Wilson, musician Tom Waits, and writer William S. Burroughs. Wilson was...
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Cities of the Red Night
Cities of the Red Night is a novel by William S. Burroughs. It was the first book in the final trilogy of the beat author, and was first published in 1981. This was his first full-length novel since The Wild Boys a decade earlier. It is the first in...
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- 1981
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- 1981
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- 13427
Junkie
Junky (also titled with the alternative spelling, Junkie) is a semi-autobiographical novel by William S. Burroughs. First published in 1953, it was Burroughs' first published novel and has come to be considered a seminal text on the lifestyle of...
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- 1953
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Queer
Queer is the title of an early short novel (written 1951–1953, published 1985) by William S. Burroughs. It is partially a sequel to his earlier novel, Junkie. That novel ends with the stated ambition of finding the ultimate ‘high’- a telepathic drug...
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- Nov 1985
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My Education: A Book of Dreams
My Education: A Book of Dreams (1995) (ISBN 0-14-009454-7) is the final novel by William S. Burroughs to be published before his death in 1997. It is a collection of dreams, taken from various decades, along with a few comments about the War on...
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- Jan 1995
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The Ticket That Exploded
The Ticket That Exploded is a novel by William S. Burroughs first published in 1962 by Olympia Press and later published in the United States by Grove Press in 1967. It is the second installment in a trilogy of books created using the cut-up...
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- 1962
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- 1962
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- 13422
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks is a novel by Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. It was written in 1945, a full decade before the two authors became famous as leading figures of the Beat Generation, and remained unpublished for many...
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Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs
Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs is a collection of diary entries made by Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs between November 16, 1996 and July 30, 1997, only a few days before his death on August 2 at the age of 83....
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- 2000
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Interzone
Interzone is a collection of short stories and other early works by William S. Burroughs. The collection was first published by Viking Penguin in 1989, although several of the stories had already been printed elsewhere, including an earlier...
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- 1989
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- 1989
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- 37235
Exterminator!
Exterminator! is a short story collection written by William S. Burroughs and first published in 1973 (some editions such as the 1974 paperback illustrated at right label the book a novel).
It is not to be confused with The Exterminator, another...
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- 1973
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- 1973
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- 13426
Dead Fingers Talk
Dead Fingers Talk, first published in 1963, was the fifth novel published by Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs. The book was originally published by Olympia Press.
The book combines sections from Burroughs' earlier novels, Naked Lunch, The...
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- 1963
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Port of Saints
Port of Saints is a novel by Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs. First published in 1973, it was the last major work Burroughs wrote during his self-imposed exile in Europe during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
One of Burroughs' shorter...
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- 1980
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- Jan 1973
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- 889031
Tornado Alley
Tornado Alley is a collection of short stories and one poem by Beat Generation author, William S. Burroughs, written during the later years of his career and first published in 1989. The first edition of the book included illustrations by S. Clay...
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- 1989
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The Yage Letters
The Yage Letters, first published in 1963, is a collection of correspondence and other writings by Beat Generation authors William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. It was issued by City Lights Books.
Most of the letters date back to 1953 and...
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- 1963
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The Last Words of Dutch Schultz
The Last Words of Dutch Schultz was a novel by Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs, first published in 1970. Rather than use traditional chapters and text, however, Burroughs wrote the book in the form of a convoluted film screenplay.
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- 1970
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Speed
Speed, first published in 1970, was the first of two published novels by William S. Burroughs, Jr., the son of the Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs.
Speed is an autobiographical novel about the ins and outs of the life of a...
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- 1970
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The Place of Dead Roads
The Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs, published in 1983, is the second book of the trilogy that begins with Cities of the Red Night and concludes with The Western Lands. It chronicles the story of a homosexual gunfighter in the American...
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- Feb 1984
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- 1983
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- 13424
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The Western Lands
The Western Lands by William S. Burroughs, published in 1987, is a novel which is the final part of the trilogy that begins with Cities of the Red Night and The Place of Dead Roads. The title refers to the western bank of the Nile River, which in...
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- 1987
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- 1987
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- 13421
Ali's Smile/Naked Scientology
Ali's Smile: Naked Scientology is a collection of essays and a short story by Beat writer William S. Burroughs (1914–97). First published in 1971 as the short story "Ali's Smile", the book eventually contained a group of previously published...
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- 1978
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The Electronic Revolution
The Electronic Revolution is an essay collection by William S. Burroughs that was first published in 1970 by Expanded Media Editions in West Germany. A second edition, published in 1971 in Cambridge, England, contained additional French translation...
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- 1970
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The Wild Boys
The Wild Boys (full title The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead) is a novel written by Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs. It was first published in 1971 by Grove Press.
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- 1971
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- 1971
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- 13420
Blade Runner (a movie)
Blade Runner (a movie) is a science fiction novella by Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs, first published in 1979. The novella began as a story treatment for a proposed film adaptation of The Bladerunner, a novel by Alan E. Nourse. (Some...
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- 1979
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- 1979
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The Cat Inside
The Cat Inside is the title of an autobiographical novella written by William S. Burroughs and illustrated by Brion Gysin. The book was first published by Grenfell Press in 1986 in an edition of only 133 copies; it was later reissued by Viking Press...
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- 1986
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Ghost of Chance
Ghost of Chance is an adventure novella written by Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs. The story was first published in 1991 in a special limited edition by the Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art; this was followed by a...
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- 1991
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Kentucky Ham
Kentucky Ham, first published in 1973, was the second of two novels written by William S. Burroughs, Jr., the son of Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs.
Like its predecessor, Speed, the book is an autobiographical novel based upon Burroughs...
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- 1973
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The Third Mind
The Third Mind is a book by Beat Generation novelist William S. Burroughs and artist/poet/novelist Brion Gysin. First published in a French-language edition in 1977, it was first published in English in 1978.
The Third Mind is a combination literary...
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Doctor Benway
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adding machine
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Textes
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Mummies
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The dead star
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Word virus
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