William S. Burroughs
1) Naked lunch
Author
Publisher
Grove Press, an imprint of Grove?atlantic, Inc
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Bill Lee, an addict and hustler, travels to Mexico and then Tangier in order to find easy access to drugs, and ends up in the Interzone, a bizarre fantasy world, in an edition that features restored text, archival material, and an essay on psychoactive drugs.
3) Junky
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1977.
Language
English
Description
Depicts the addict's life: his hallucinations, his ghostly nocturnal wanderings, his strange sexuality, and his hunger for the needle. Following its hero from his midwestern birthplace to New York, New Orleans, and Mexico City. Based on the author's own experiences.
Author
Series
Criterion collection volume 789
Publisher
Criterion Collection Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Portrait of author William S. Burroughs filmed over five years as Brookner's senior thesis at NYU film school.
Publisher
Sounds True
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
William S. Burroughs talks about his breakthrough methods for generating fresh writing: including "the cut-up method," chance operations, and dreamwork. Diane Di Prama discusses how to survive as an artist: preserving your sensibility, creating a supportive artistic community, getting published, self-publishing and more. Allen Ginsberg explores stages of poetic activity: from inspiration, to composition, to revision, to performing your poetry in public....
6) Naked lunch
Series
Criterion collection volume 220
Language
English
Formats
Description
Part-time pest-control man and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Weller) seeks escape from his troubled existence in 1953 New York and flees to Interzone (a hallucinatory version of Tangiers) where reality and fantasy have merged. It's a strange, surreal landscape inhabited by mugwumps, half-alien, half-insect creatures, man-sized centipedes, carnivorous typewriters and bizarre humans. Compelled to make sense of this alien territory, he writes a book...