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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.
The introduction of the 25th Anniversary edition of Queer, published in 2010 and edited by Oliver Harris, who made some small revisions to the text, argued that the novel's real traumatic backstory was Burroughs' real life relationship with Lewis Marker, fictionalised in the narrative as Lee's hopeless desire for Allerton.
Naked Lunch (first published as The Naked Lunch) is a 1959 antinovel by American author William S. Burroughs.The antinovel does not follow a clear linear plot, but is instead structured as a series of non-chronological "routines".
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.
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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.