William S. Burroughs bibliography  

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

Novels and other long fiction

• And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (1945; published November 2008) (with Jack Kerouac) (ISBN 9781846141645)
• Junkie (1953) (ISBN 0-14-200316-6)
• Queer (written 1951-3; published 1985) (ISBN 0-14-008389-8)
• Naked Lunch (1959) (ISBN 0-8021-3295-2)
• The Soft Machine (1961) (ISBN 0-8021-3329-0)
• The Ticket That Exploded (1962) (ISBN 0-8021-5150-7)
• 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 (1964) (ISBN 0-8021-3330-4)
• The Last Words of Dutch Schultz (1969) (ISBN 1-55970-211-7)
• The Wild Boys: A Book Of The Dead (1971) (ISBN 0-8021-3331-2)
• Port of Saints (1973) (ISBN 0-912652-64-0)
• Cities of the Red Night (1981) (ISBN 0-03-053976-5)
• 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)
• Rules of Duel (2010) (with Graham Masterton) (ISBN 978-1-84583-052-6)

Non-fiction

• The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs (1969) (ISBN 0-14-011882-9) (with Daniel Odier)
• Jack Kerouac (1970) (with Claude Pelieu)
• The Electronic Revolution (1971)
• The Retreat Diaries (1976) - later included in The Burroughs File
• Letters to Allen Ginsberg 1953-1957 (1976)
• Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs (2000; ISBN 0-8021-3778-4)
• Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs (2007; ISBN 978-0814210802)

Stories and novellas

• Valentine's Day Reading (1965)
• Time (1965)
• APO-33 (1966)
• The Dead Star (1969)
• Ali's Smile (1971)
• Mayfair Academy Series More or Less (1973)
• White Subway (1973) - later included in The Burroughs File
• Exterminator! (1973) (ISBN 0-14-005003-5) (a different book from the 1960 collaboration with Brion Gysin)
• The Book of Breething (1974)
• Snack... (ISBN 0-85652-014-4) (1975)
• Cobble Stone Gardens (1976) - later included in The Burroughs File
• Blade Runner (a movie) (1979) (ISBN 0-912652-46-2)
• Dr. Benway (1979)
• Die Alten Filme (The Old Movies) (1979) - later included in The Burroughs File
• Streets of Chance (1981)
• Early Routines (1981)
• Sinki's Sauna (1982)
• Ruski (1984)
• The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1984)
• The Cat Inside (1986)
• The Whole Tamale (c.1987-88)
• Interzone (1987) (ISBN 0-14-009451-2)
• Tornado Alley (1989)
• Ghost of Chance (1991) (ISBN 1-85242-457-5)
• Seven Deadly Sins (1992)
• Paper Cloud; Thick Pages (1992)

Collections

• Roosevelt After Inauguration and Other Atrocities (1965)
• Ali's Smile: Naked Scientology (1978)
• Ah Pook is Here, Nova Express, Cities of the Red Night (1981) (ISBN 0-312-27846-2)
• The Burroughs File (1984)
• The Adding Machine: Collected Essays (1985) (ISBN 1-55970-210-9)
• Uncommon Quotes Vol. 1 (1989)
• Selected Letters (1993)
• Burroughs Live : The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997 (2000) (ISBN 1-58435-010-5)
• The Letters of William S. Burroughs 1945-1959
• Word Virus : The William Burroughs Reader (1998) (ISBN 0-00-655214-5)

Collaborations

• Minutes To Go (1960) (with Sinclair Beilles, Gregory Corso and Brion Gysin)
• The Exterminator (1960) (with Brion Gysin)
• The Yage Letters (1963) (with Allen Ginsberg)
• So Who Owns Death TV? (1967) (with Claude Pelieu and Carl Weissner)
• Brion Gysin Let the Mice In (1973) (with Brion Gysin)
• Sidetripping (1975) (with Charles Gatewood)
• Colloque de Tangier (1976) (with Brion Gysin)
• The Third Mind (1977) (with Brion Gysin)
• Colloque de Tangier Vol. 2 (1979) (with Brion Gysin and Gérard-Georges Lemaire)
• Ah Pook is Here and Other Texts (1979) (with Malcolm McNeill)
• Apocalypse (1988) (with Keith Haring)
• The Black Rider (1989) (with Tom Waits and Robert Wilson)

Film collaborations

• The Final Academy Documents – (with various experimental film collaborations of Brion Gyson, Antony Balch, John Giorno and others)

The Final Academy - a 1982 tour in Britain, organized by David Dawson, Roger Ely and Genesis P-Orridge. The project was based on, featuring works of and was inspired by William S Burroughs. A DVD, The Final Academy Documents is a DVD of edited highlights from the tour, including Burroughs's public appearance in 1982 and reading from his work at Manchester's Haçienda club, a performance by John Giorno and includes the experimental film collaborations with Anthony Balch, Brion Gysin, and others - Towers Open Fire and Ghosts at No. 9.

Many of Burroughs's works were later republished with revisions made by the author, and/or censored material restored. Both Junkie/Junky and Naked Lunch were published in "restored" editions following Burroughs's death. An expanded edition of Yage Letters entitled Yage Letters Redux was published in April 2006.

Burroughs also played a cameo part in the motion picture Drugstore Cowboy. He also collaborated on the documentary Words of Advice: William S. Burroughs On the Road eventually released in 2007.

Recordings (partial list)

• Call Me Burroughs (1965) - The English Bookshop, Paris (reissued in 1995 by Rhino Word Beat)
• The Nova Convention (1979) by Burroughs and others - LP GPS 14-15
• 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 20-21 et al.
• Poetry in Motion (1982) a film directed by Ron Mann - Burroughs is a featured writer.
• Mister Heartbreak (1984) by Laurie Anderson - Burroughs speaks the lyrics to the song "Sharkey's Night"
• Home of the Brave (1986) by Laurie Anderson - a sample of Burroughs intoning "Listen to my heart beat" is incorporated into the song "Late Show"
• UnCommon Quotes (1986) - Recorded live at the CARAVAN of DREAMS, September 11, 1986 ([1]) (ISBN 0 929856 00 7)
• Smack my Crack (1987) with Tom Waits and various artists
• Like A Girl I Want To Keep Coming (1989) by John Giorno - LP Giorno Poetry System
• Seven Souls (1989) by Material - Burroughs collaborates with Bill Laswell, later remixed in 1998 as The Road to the Western Lands
• Dead City Radio (1990) - Island Records
• The "Priest" they called him (1992) - Burroughs narrates and Kurt Cobain plays guitar
• Break Through In Grey Room (1992) - A collection of readings and cutups - Sub Rosa Records
• "Just One Fix" (1992) from the Ministry album Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs - Burroughs speaks the lyrics to the song "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 (1993) - Island Records (features the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy)
• "Words Of Advice" on the Material album Hallucination Engine (1994) - same piece as on Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales accompanied by different music
• The Elvis of Letters (1995) with Gus van Sant
• 10%: File under Burroughs (1996) - 2 CD set; Disc one: "Beats" (dance music using Burroughs's voice and Brion Gysin); Disc two: "Beat" (acoustic sounds and voices)
• Songs in the Key of X (1996) and In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003 bonus disc (2003) - Burroughs records his 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 provided by The Doors on the track "Is Everybody In?"