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Works Cited


The following bibliography consists of works consulted and cited throughout the writing of this book.
Most of the books in Section One were consulted but will not be cited here due to the lengthy bibliographic information assigned to them in that section. The following is more of a primary and secondary bibliography for works by and about William Burroughs, and some reference books used for biographical information.


Ansen, Alan. William Burroughs. Sudbury, MA: Water Row Press, 1986.

Bennet, John M. An American Avant Garde: First Wave. An Exhibit. Ohio State University, 2001.

Bokris, Victor. With William Burroughs. A Report from the Bunker. Vermilion, 1982.

Burroughs, William S. Adding Machine. Selected Essays. NY: Seaver Books, 1986.
_____ Ah Pook Is Here and Other Texts. John Calder, 1979.
_____ Ali’s Smile and Naked Scientology. Expanded Media Editions, 1985.
_____ APO-33 Bulletin A Metabolic Regulator. SF, CA: Beach Books. City Lights, 1968.
_____ Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets. Thalia Theater, 1990. _____ Blade Runner (A Movie.) Blue Wind Press, 1990.
_____ The Book of Breeething. Blue Wind, 1976.
_____ A Burroughs Compendium. Calling the Toads. Ring Tarigh, 1998.
_____ The Burroughs File. SF, CA: City Lights, 1984.
_____ Burroughs Live 1960-1997. The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs. NY: Semiotext(e) Double Agents Series, 2001.
_____ The Cat Inside. NY: Viking, 1992. _____ Cities of the Red Night. Holt Rinehart Winston, 1981.
_____ Cobble Stone Gardens. Cherry Valley Editions, 1976.
_____ Dead Fingers Talk. Calder, 1963.
_____ Dead Star. Nova Broadcast 5, 1969.
_____ Doctor Benway. Bradford Morrow, 1979.
_____ Early Routines. Cadmus Editions. 1981.
_____ Electronic Revolution. Expanded Media Editions, 1976.
_____ The Exterminator. w/Brion Gysin. Auerhahn Press, 1960.
_____ Exterminator! NY: Penguin, 1979.
_____ Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Expanded Media Editions, 1988.

_____ El Gato Por Dentro. (The Cat Inside) Translated by Jose Ferez. Mexico: Editorial Diana, 2000.
_____ Ghost of Chance. NY: High Risk, 1995.
_____ Interzone. Edited by James Grauerholz. NY: Viking, 1989.
_____ The Job. NY: Penguin, 1989.
_____ Junky. NY: Penguin, 1977.
_____ Last Words of Dutch Schultz. Cape Goliard Press, 1970.
_____ Last Words of Dutch Schultz. NY: Viking, 1975. First American edition.
_____ Last Words. The Final Journals. NY: Grove Press, 2000.
_____ Letters of William S. Burroughs 1945-1959. Edited by Oliver Harris. NY: Viking, 1993.
_____ Letters to Allen Ginsberg 1953-1957. Full Court, 1982.
_____ Mayfair Academy Series More or Less. Urgency Press Rip Off, 1973.
_____ Minutes To Go w/Gregory Corso, Brion Gysin, and Sinclair Beiles. Beach Books, 1968.
_____ My Education. A Book of Dreams. Viking, 1995.
_____ Naked Lunch. Grove Press, 1966. Black Cat Edition.
_____ New York Inside Out w/Robert Walker. Skyline Press, 1984.
_____ Nova Express. NY: Grove Press. Evergreen Edition, 1992.
_____ Painting and Guns. Hanuman, 1992.
_____ Paper Cloud Thick Pages. ArT Random, 1992.
_____ The Place of Dead Roads. Holt Rinehart Winston,

_____ Port of Saints. Blue Wind,
_____ Queer. Viking, 1985.
_____ RE/Search #4/5. Special Book Issue with Brion Gysin and Throbbing Gristle.
_____ Retreat Diaries. City Moon, 1976.
_____ Roosevelt After Innaguration. City Lights, 1979.
_____ Seven Deadly Sins. Lococo/Mulder, 1991.
_____ Sidetripping w/Charles Gatewood. Derbibooks, 1975.
_____ Sinki’s Sauna. Pequod Press, 1982.
_____ Snack w/Eric Mottram. Aloes, 1975.
_____ The Soft Machine. Grove Press, Evergreen edition. 1992.
_____ The Third Mind w/Brion Gysin. Viking, 1978.
_____ The Ticket That Exploded. Grove Press, 1987.

_____ Time w/Brion Gysin. Urgency Press Rip Off,
_____ Tornado Alley. Cherry Valley, 1989.
_____ The Western Lands. Viking, 1987.
_____ White Subway. Aloes,

_____ The Wild Boys. Grove Press. Evergreen edition, 1992.
_____ William Burroughs Reader. Picador, 1982.
_____ Word Virus. The William S. Burroughs Reader. Grove Press, 1998.
_____ Yage Letters w/Allen Ginsberg. City Lights, 1990.

Dawson, David (ed.) Final Academy. Statements of a Kind. Presented by David Dawson, Roger Ely and Genesis P. Orridge, 1982.

Fields, Rick (ed.) Loka 2: A Journal From Naropa Institute. NY: Anchor, 1976.

Ginsberg, Allen. Deliberate Prose. Selected Essays 1952-1995. Edited by Bill Morgan. NY: Harper
Collins, 2000.

_____. Photographs. Altadena, CA: Twelvetrees Press, 1990.

_____. Spontaneous Mind. Selected Interviews 1958-1996. Edited by David Carter. NY:
Harper Collins, 2001.

Grauerholz, James. “Nothing Is True William Burroughs and Buddhism.” Tricycle. Spring, 2001.
pp.74-9.

Gysin, Brion. Brion Gysin Let the Mice In (with texts by William Burroughs and Ian Sommerville) Something Else Press, 1973.

Harris, Oliver. William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination. Ill: Southern Illinois University, 2003.

Hibbard, Allen. Conversations with William Burroughs. University of Mississippi, 2000.

Hubbard, L. Ron. Scientology Abridged Dictionary. Scientology Publications Organization, 1970.

Knight, Arthur and Kit (ed.’s) The Beat Vision. NY: Paragon House, 1987.

_____ Kerouac and the Beats. NY: Paragon House, 1988.

Lauridsen, Inger Thorup & Per Dalgard. The Beat Generation and the Russian New Wave. MI: Ardis, 1990.

Loydell, Rupert (ed.) My Kind of Angel I.M. William Burroughs. Stride, 1998.

Maynard, Joe and Barry Miles. William S. Burroughs A Bibliography, 1953-1973. University of Virginia. 1978.

McCaffery, Larry (ed.) Across the Wounded Galaxies. Interviews with Contemporary American Science
Fiction Writers
. Ill: University of Illinois Press, 1990.

McNamee, Gregory (ed.) Living In Words. Interviews From the Bloomsbury Review 1981-1988.
Portland, OR: Breitenbush, 1988.

Miles, Barry. Catalogue of the William S. Burroughs Archive. Covent Garden Press, 1973.

_____ El Hombre Invisible. William Burroughs: A Portrait. NY: Hyperion, 1993.

_____ Ginsberg. A Biography. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1989.

Morgan, Ted. Literary Outlaw. The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs. NY: Avon, 1990.

Nicosia, Gerald. Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac. NY: Grove Press, 1983.

O’Brien, John (ed.) The Review of Contemporary Fiction. William S. Burroughs Number. Spring 1984,
Volume 4, Number 1.

Sawyer-Laucanno, Christopher. An Invisible Spectator. A Biography of Paul Bowles. NY: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989.

Scholder, Amy and Ira Silverberg (ed.’s) High Risk: An Anthology of Forbidden Writings. NY: Plume, 1991.

Schumacher, Michael. Dharma Lion: A Biography of Allen Ginsberg. NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1992.

Skerl, Jennie and Robin Lydenberg. William S. Burroughs at the Front. Critical Reception, 1959-1989. Ill: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991.

Sotheby’s. Allen Ginsberg and Friends. NY: Sotheby’s. Thursday October 7, 1999.

Stevens, Michael. A Distant Book Lifted. Blurbs, Forewords, Afterwords, Introductions, Prefaces,
and Other Items Relating to William S. Burroughs
. Spicewood, TX: Benjiman Spooner Books,
2001.

Strausbaugh, John and Donald Blaise (ed.’s) The Drug User: Documents 1840-1960. Blast Books,
1991.

Turner, Steve. Jack Kerouac Angelheaded Hipster. NY: Viking, 1996.

Waldman, Anne and Andrew Schelling (ed.’s) Disembodied Poetics. Annals of the Jack Kerouac School.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994.

Waldman, Anne and Marilyn Webb (ed.’s) Talking Poetics From Naropa Institute. Annals of the Jack
Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics Volume One
. Boulder, CO: Shambhala, 1978.

Watson, Andy and Mark V. Ziesing. Journal Wired. Englewood, CO: Andy Watson and Mark V. Ziesing, Fall, 1990.

Watson, Steven. The Birth of the Beat Generation. Visionaries, Rebels, and Hipsters, 1944-1960.
NY: Pantheon, 1995.



















ent is that the sign for a function
already contains the prototype of its argument, and it cannot contain itself...”
Not only do these three statements from Wittgenstein’s piece support Burroughs’ theory, but