William S. Burroughs bibliography

This is a bibliography of the works of William S. Burroughs.

Novels and other long fiction

Junkie Queer Naked Lunch The Nova Trilogy :

* The Soft Machine
* The Ticket That Exploded
* Nova Express Dead Fingers Talk – 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 The Wild Boys: A book of the dead Port of Saints The Red Night Trilogy :
* Cities of the Red Night
* The Place of Dead Roads
* The Western Lands My Education: A Book of Dreams

Non-fiction and letters

"Letter From A Master Addict To Dangerous Drugs," British Journal of Addiction, Vol. 53, No. 2, 3 August 1956The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs Jack Kerouac The Electronic Revolution
"Foreword" to Mohamed Choukri's Jean Genet in Tangier The Retreat Diaries - later included in The Burroughs FileLetters to Allen Ginsberg 1953-1957 The Adding Machine: Collected Essays Selected Letters The Letters of William S. Burroughs 1945-1959 Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs Conversations with William S. Burroughs Burroughs Live : The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997 Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs Rub Out The Words: The Letters of William S. Burroughs 1959-1974

Stories and novellas

Valentine's Day Reading

Time - a parody of Time magazine published in an approximation of the magazine's formatAPO-33 The Dead Star Ali's Smile Mayfair Academy Series More or Less White Subway - later included in The Burroughs FileThe Book of Breeething Snack... Cobble Stone Gardens - later included in The Burroughs FileBlade Runner (a movie) Dr. Benway Die Alten Filme - later included in The Burroughs FileStreets of Chance Early Routines Sinki's Sauna Ruski The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse The Cat Inside The Whole Tamale Tornado Alley Ghost of Chance Seven Deadly Sins
''Paper Cloud; Thick Pages''

Collections

Interzone Roosevelt After Inauguration and Other Atrocities Exterminator! Ali's Smile: Naked Scientology Ah Pook is Here, Nova Express, Cities of the Red Night - omnibus The Burroughs File Three Novels - Grove Press omnibus of The Soft Machine, Nova Express and The Wild Boys Uncommon Quotes Vol. 1 Word Virus: The William Burroughs Reader The Revised Boy Scout Manual: An Electronic Revolution - a longform parody essay from c.1970 previously unpublished in complete form

Collaborations

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks Minutes To Go The Exterminator The Yage Letters So Who Owns Death TV? Rules of Duel Brion Gysin Let the Mice In Sidetripping Colloque de Tangier The Third Mind Colloque de Tangier Vol. 2 Ah Pook Is Here and Other Texts Apocalypse

''The Black Rider''

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.
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, 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, director of Drugstore Cowboy, made a short film in 1981 based on Burroughs's "The Discipline of DE".

Recordings (partial list)

Call Me Burroughs - The English Bookshop, Paris
Long song for Zelda - by Dashiell Hedayat and Gong, LP shandar record production SR83512, Paris,, Obsolete, Burroughs says a sentence of 10 seconds at the end of track at the 7'32 mark.
The Nova Convention by Burroughs and others - LP GPS
Nothing Here Now But The Recordings with Brion Gysin - LP Industrial Records IR0016
You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With with John Giorno and Laurie Anderson - LP GPS
Mister Heartbreak by Laurie Anderson - Burroughs reads "Sharkey's Night"
The Elvis of Letters with Gus van Sant
Home of the Brave by Laurie Anderson - Burroughs sample is used in the song "Late Show"
UnCommon Quotes - Recorded at CARAVAN of DREAMS, September 11, 1986 ; cassette only; includes foldout essay "William S. Burroughs: A Shift in Vision" by Robert PalmerBreak Through In Grey Room - A collection of readings and cutups - Sub Rosa Records
Smack My Crack with Tom Waits and various artists - LP GPS
Like A Girl I Want To Keep Coming by John Giorno - LP GPS
Seven Souls by Material - remixed in 1998 as The Road to the Western Lands
Dead City Radio - Island Records
Millions of Images with Gus Van Sant
The "Priest" they called him - Burroughs narrates and Kurt Cobain plays guitar
"Just One Fix" 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 - 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 - Island Records
"Words Of Advice" on the Material album Hallucination Engine
The Dark Eye, Voices the character "Uncle Edwin", also narration of Annabel Lee and Masque of the Red Death. Burroughs' only video game role.
10%: File under Burroughs - 2-CD set, produced by Frank Rynne and Joe Ambrose, Sub Rosa
Songs in the Key of X and In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003 bonus disc - Burroughs vocal over an instrumental version of R.E.M.'s "Star Me Kitten"
Stoned Immaculate: The Music of the Doors - Burroughs reads poetry by Jim Morrison over music by The Doors on "Is Everybody In?"