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The Letters of William S. Burroughs 1945-1959 (1993) (ISBN 978-0330330749) Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs (2000; ISBN 0-8021-3778-4) Conversations with William S. Burroughs (2000) (ISBN 1578061830) Burroughs Live : The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997 (2000) (ISBN 1-58435-010-5)
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.
The book is written in a style close to that of Naked Lunch, employing third-person singular indirect recall, though now using the cut-up method. After the main material follow three appendices in the British edition, the first explaining the title (as mentioned above) and two accounts of Burroughs' own drug abuse and treatment using apomorphine.
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".
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.
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 Ticket That Exploded is a 1962 novel by American author William S. Burroughs, published by Olympia Press and later by Grove Press in 1967. Together with The Soft Machine and Nova Express it is part of a trilogy, referred to as The Nova Trilogy, created using the cut-up technique, although for this book Burroughs used a variant called 'the fold-in' method.