Bibliography of William S. Burroughs

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

Novels and other long fiction

* "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)
* "" (1995) (ISBN 0-14-009454-7)

Non-fiction

* "" (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)
* "" (2000; ISBN 0-8021-3778-4)
* "" (2007; ISBN 978-0814210802)

tories 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 (aka "Ah Pook Is Here")" (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)
* "" (1985) (ISBN 1-55970-210-9)
* "Uncommon Quotes Vol. 1" (1989)
* "Selected Letters" (1993)
* "" (2000) (ISBN 1-58435-010-5)
* "The Letters of William S. Burroughs 1945-1959"
* "" (1998) (ISBN 0-00-655214-5)

Collaborations

* "And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks" (1945 - scheduled for publication November 2008) (with Jack Kerouac)
* "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)
* "Apocalypse" (1988) (with Keith Haring)

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". [http://www.ubu.com/sound/burroughs.html] [http://www.ubu.com/film/burroughs.html] [http://www.ubu.com/historical/burroughs/index.html]

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 "" 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 ( [http://www.synergeticpress.com/fictiontitlesnew.html#unc] ) (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 "" - 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
*"" (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 "" 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?"