A long anticipated collection of over 300 of Burroughs's letters from the early '60s through the mid '70s, written to such recipients as Allen Ginsberg, Paul Bowles, and the surrealist artist Brion Gysin, these letters shed remarkable light on the writer's artistic process and literary experimentati[...]

The Job is William S. Burroughs at work, attacking our traditional values, condemning what he calls "the American nightmare," and expressing his often barbed views on Scientology, the police, orgone therapy, history, women, writing, poitics, sex, drugs, and death. His conversation splices images of [...]

In late summer 1953, as he returned to Mexico City after a seven-month expedition through the jungles of Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru, William Burroughs began a notebook of final reflections on his four years in Latin America. His first novel, "Junkie, "had just been published and he would soon be ba[...]

Short stories exploring American society and drug addiction are accompanied by selections from the author's scrapbooks and diaries[...]

William Burroughs was one of post-war America's most controversial and influential writers. This is the authoritative, indispensable anthology of his greatest work.[...]

An intimate portrait of the son of the best-selling counterculture author draws on his final journals, poems, and correspondence to offer insight into the factors that challenged his life, from his relationship with his father to his tragic personal losses. Original.[...]

The first novel in William Burroughs' anarchic 'Cut-Up Trilogy'.

A controversial reworking of well-trodden American myth by the author of 'Naked Lunch'.

The hypocrisy of contemporary society is the focal point of this novel about various forms of extermination[...]

Interzone portrays the development of Burroughs's mature writing style by presenting a selection of pieces from the mid-1950s. His outrageous tone of voice represents the exorcism of four decades of oppressive sexual and social conditioning. Burroughs's close observations of humanity - its ugliness [...]

Drawing heavily on Egyptian mythology, this visionary novel follows Joe the Dead, Kim Carsons, Neferti, Hassan i Sabbah, and the Old Man of the Mountains on their hazardous pilgrimage toward immortality[...]

Nightmarish and fiercely funny, William Burroughs' virtuoso, taboo-breaking masterpiece Naked Lunch follows Bill Lee through Interzone: a surreal, orgiastic wasteland of drugs, depravity, political plots, paranoia, sadistic medical experiments and endless, gnawing addiction. One of the most shocking[...]