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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 ...
William Seward Burroughs II (/ ˈ b ʌr oʊ z /; February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist.He is widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced popular culture and literature.
Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict, or Junky, is a 1953 novel by American Beat generation writer William S. Burroughs. The book follows "William Lee" as he struggles with his addiction to morphine and heroin. Burroughs based the story on his own experiences with drugs, and he published it under the pen name William Lee.
Despite his frequent and uncompromising writings on homosexuality, Burroughs has, in the words of Jamie Russell, author of Queer Burroughs, "been totally excluded from the 'queer canon ' ". [5] According to Russell, Burroughs's life and writing suggests a gay subjectivity which has been deeply troubling to many in the gay community.
The Western Lands is a 1987 novel by William S. Burroughs.The final book of the trilogy that begins with Cities of the Red Night (1981) and continues with The Place of Dead Roads (1983), its title refers to the western bank of the Nile River, which in Egyptian mythology is the Land of the Dead.
Pages in category "Novels by William S. Burroughs" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. ... My Education: A Book of Dreams; N. Naked Lunch ...
The trilogy of experimental novels is composed of The Soft Machine (1961, revised 1966 and 1968), The Ticket That Exploded (1962, revised 1967) and Nova Express (1964). Like Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine derived in part from The Word Hoard, a number of manuscripts Burroughs wrote mainly in Tangier, between 1954 and 1958.
Short story collections by William S. Burroughs (4 P) Pages in category "Books by William S. Burroughs" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.