by Barry Miles
Ruski. New York: Hand Job, 1984.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Bonn: EME, 1984.
The Burroughs File. San Francisco: City Lights, 1984.
The Adding Machine: Collected Essays. London: John Calder, 1985.
Queer. New York: Viking, 1985.
The Cat Inside. New York: Grenfell, 1986.
The Western Lands. New York: Viking, 1987.
The Whole Tamale. n.p. [London]: Horse Press, n.d. (pamphlet).
(With Keith Haring) Apocalypse. New York: Mulder Fine Arts, 1988.
Interzone. New York: Viking, 1989.
(With S. Clay Wilson) Tornado Alley. Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley, 1989.
(With Keith Haring) The Valley. New York: George Mulder Fine Arts, 1990 (illustrated fine art portfolio).
(With George Condo) Ghost of Chance. New York: Whitney Museum, 1991 (illustrated fine art portfolio).
Seven Deadly Sins. New York: Lococo-Mulder Fine Art, 1991.
Painting and Guns. New York: Hanuman, 1992.
The Letters of William S. Burroughs, 1945 to 1959. Edited by Oliver Harris. London: Picador, 1993.
Photos and Remembering Jack Kerouac. Louisville, KY: White Fields, 1994 (pamphlet).
Ghost of Chance. New York: High Risk, 1995 (without the Condo illustrations).
My Education. New York: Viking, 1995.
Pantopon Rose. Charleston, WV: Parchment Gallery Graphics, 1995 (broadside).
Word Virus. Edited by James Grauerholz. New York: Grove, 1998.
A Spiritual Exercise. Boulder, CO: Kavyayantra, 1998 (broadside).
Last Words. New York: Grove, 2000.
Words of Advice for Young People. Encinitas, CA: FreeThought, 2001 (small edition pamphlet).
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text. New York: Grove, 2001 (second U.S. version).
Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2008.
(With Jack Kerouac) And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks. New York: Grove, 2008.
Rub Out the Words: The Letters of William S. Burroughs, 1959–1974. Edited by Bill Morgan. New York: HarperCollins, 2012.
Books by William S. Burroughs Jr.
Speed. New York: Olympia, 1970.
Kentucky Ham. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1973.
Kentucky Ham. Woodstock, NY: Overlook, 1984 (with WSB afterword).
Cursed from Birth: The Short, Unhappy Life of William S. Burroughs Jr. Edited and compiled by David Ohle. Brooklyn, NY: Soft Skull, 2000.
Books About William Seward Burroughs
Ambrose, Joe, Terry Wilson, and Frank Rynne. Man from Nowhere: Storming the Citadels of Enlightenment with William Burroughs and Brion Gysin. Dublin: The Gap/Subliminal, 1992.
[Anon.]. William S. Burroughs: Naked Biography, n.p.: Filiquarian, 2008.
Ansen, Alan. William Burroughs. Sudbury, CT: Water Row, 1986.
Baker, Phil. William S. Burroughs. London: Reaktion, Critical Lives Series, 2010.
Bockris, Victor. With William Burroughs: A Report from the Bunker. New York: Seaver, 1981.
———. William Burroughs: Cool Cats, Furry Cats, Aliens, but No Purring. New York: (privately printed in an edition of 100 copies), 1991.
Bridgett, Rob. The Cinematic Experiments of William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and Antony Balch. Binley Woods near Coventry: Beat Scene, 2003.
Burroughs, William S. (with Brion Gysin). Le Colloque de Tanger. Paris: Christian Bourgois, 1976 (texts by WSB and proceedings of the conference).
———(with Brion Gysin and Gérard-George Lemaire). Le Colloque de Tanger 2. Paris: Christian Bourgois, 1979 (texts by WSB and proceedings of the conference).
Caveney, Graham. The “Priest,” They Called Him: The Life and Legacy of William S. Burroughs. London: Bloomsbury, 1998.
Cecil, Paul, ed. A William Burroughs Birthday Book. Brighton, UK: Temple Press, 1994.
Cook, Ralph T., compiler. William S. Burroughs: A Checklist of Magazine/Periodical Appearances. San Diego: Atticus, 1980.
Ely, Roger, ed. The Final Academy: Statements of a Kind. London: The Final Academy, 1982.
García-Robles, Jorge. La Bala Perdida: William S. Burroughs en Mexico (1949–52). Mexico City: Ediciones del Milenio, 1995.
Goodman, Michael B. William S. Burroughs: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1975.
———. Contemporary Literary Censorship: The Case History of Burroughs’ “Naked Lunch.” Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1981.
Goodman, Michael B., and Lemuel B. Coley. William S. Burroughs: A Reference Guide. New York: Garland, 1990.
Grauerholz, James W. The Death of Joan Vollmer Burroughs: What Really Happened? Lawrence: American Studies Dept., University of Kansas, 2002 (not commercially published).
Gysin, Brion. Brion Gysin Let the Mice In. West Glover, VT: Something Else, 1973.
———(with Terry Wilson). Here to Go: Planet R-101; Brion Gysin Interviewed by Terry Wilson. San Francisco: RE/Search, 1982.
Harris, Oliver. William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003.
Harris, Oliver, and Ian MacFadyen, eds. Naked Lunch @ 50: Anniversary Essays. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2009.
Hibbard, Allen, ed. Conversations with William S. Burroughs. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1999.
Hibbard, Allen, and Barry Tharaud, eds. Bowles/Beats/Tangier. Denver, Amherst, and Tangier: International Center for Performance Studies, 2010.
Johnson, Rob. The Lost Years of William S. Burroughs: Beats in South Texas. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006.
Knight, Michael Muhammad. William S. Burroughs vs. The Qur’an. Berkeley, CA: Soft Skull, 2012.
Lemaire, Gérard-Georges. Burroughs. Paris: Artifact, 1986.
Long, John. Drugs and the “Beats”: The Role of Drugs in the Lives and Writings of Kerouac, Burroughs, and Ginsberg. College Station, TX: Virtualbookworm.com, 2005.
Lotringer, Sylvère, ed. Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960–1997. Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2001.
Loydell, Rupert, ed. my kind of angel: i.m. william burroughs. Exeter, UK: Stride, 1998.
Lydenberg, Robin. Word Cultures: Radical Theory and Practice in William S. Burroughs’ Fiction. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987.
Mahoney, Denis, Richard L. Martin, and Ron Whitehead, eds. A Burroughs Compendium: Calling the Toads. Antwerp: Fringecore/Ring Tarigh/Hozomeen, 1998.
Maynard, Joe, and Barry Miles. William S. Burroughs: A Bibliography, 1953–1973. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1978.
Mikriammos, Philippe. William S. Burroughs, la vie et l’oeuvre. Paris: Seghers, 1975.
Miles, Barry. A Catalogue of the William S. Burroughs Archive. Ollon, Switzerland, and London: Am Here and Covent Garden, 1973.
———. William Burroughs: El Hombre Invisible. London: Virgin, 1992.
———. The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso in Paris, 1957–1963. New York: Grove, 2000.
Morgan, Ted. Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs. New York: Henry Holt, 1988.
Mottram, Eric. William Burroughs: The Algebra of Need. London: Marion Boyars, 1977.
Mullins, Greg A. Colonial Affairs: Bowles, Burroughs, and Chester Write Tangier. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002.
Murphy, Timothy S. Wising Up the Marks: The Amodern William Burroughs. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
Robinson, Edward S. Shift Linguals: Cut-Up Narratives from William S. Burroughs to the Present. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011.
Russell, Jamie. Queer Burroughs. New York: Palgrave, 2001.
Schneiderman, Davis, and Philip Walsh, eds. Retaking the Universe: William S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization. London: Pluto, 2004.
Shoaf, Eric C. Collecting William S. Burroughs in Print: A Checklist. Rumford, RI: Ratishna, 2000.
———. William S. Burroughs: Time*Place*Word,
an Exhibit at the John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Providence, RI: Brown University Press, 2000.
Skerl, Jennie. William S. Burroughs. Boston: Twayne, 1985.
Skerl, Jennie, and Robin Lydenberg, eds. William S. Burroughs at the Front: Critical Reception, 1959–1989. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991.
Stevens, Michael. A Distant Book Lifted. Spicewood, TX: Benjiman Spooner, 2001.
Vilà, Christian. William S. Burroughs, le génie empoisonné. Paris: Editions du Rocher, 1992.
Weissner, Carl. Burroughs: Eine Bild-Biographie. Berlin: Nishen, 1994.
Whitelaw, Robert Menzies. Themes in the Work of William Burroughs. PhD thesis, University of Massachusetts, 1970.
Special Issues of Periodicals
Intrepid 14/15 (Fall 1969/70). Special Burroughs Issue.
RE/Search 4/5 (1982). William S. Burroughs/Throbbing Gristle/Brion Gysin.
The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Spring 1984. William S. Burroughs Number.
Double Bill 1–4 (n.s. [1992–94?]). A fanzine edited by Jena von Brücker dedicating to praising Bill “Cannon” Conrad and destroying William Burroughs.
Ashé: Journal of Experimental Spirituality 2, no. 3 (2009). “Playback, the Magick of William S. Burroughs.”
Bibliography of Copies Used (Not Necessarily the First Editions)
St. Louis and Los Alamos
Ackroyd, Peter. T. S. Eliot: A Life. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1984.
Allen, Frederick Lewis. Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s. New York: Harper & Row, 1957.
———. Since Yesterday: The 1930s in America. New York: Harper & Row, (1940) 1972.
Black, Jack. You Can’t Win. New York: Macmillan, 1926.
Burroughs, Laura Lee. Flower Arranging: A Fascinating Hobby. 2 vols. Atlanta: Coca-Cola, 1940–41.
———. Homes and Flowers: Refreshing Arrangements. Atlanta: Coca-Cola, 1943.
Burroughs, William S. The Place of Dead Roads. London: Fourth Estate (HarperCollins), 1983.
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Montesi, Albert, and Richard Deposki. Central West End St. Louis. Chicago: Arcadia, 2000.
Primm, James Neal. Lion of the Valley: St. Louis, Missouri, 1764–1980. St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society, 1981; 3rd ed., 1998.
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Wilson, Edmund. The American Earthquake. Garden City, NY: Doubleday Anchor, 1958.
Harvard
Kittredge, George Lyman. Witchcraft in Old and New England. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1929.
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Ware, Caroline F. Greenwich Village, 1920–1930. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994 (reprint from 1935).
Mitteleuropa
Baedeker, Karl. Austria: Handbook for Travellers. Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1929.
Brittain, Sir Harry. Austria Invites. London: Hutchinson, [1936].
Karl, Susanne, and Werner Grand. Wiener Gastlichkeit: Essen und Trinken in Wien 1. Erfurt: Sutton, 2011.
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Chicago
Budge, E. A. Wallis. An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary. 2 vols. London: John Murray, 1920.
Duis, Perry, and Scott LaFrance. We’ve Got a Job to Do: Chicagoans and World War II. Chicago: Chicago Historical Society, 1992.
Mayer, Harold, and Richard Wade. Chicago: Growth of a Metropolis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969.
Miles, Barry. In the Seventies. London: Serpent’s Tail, 2011.
Texas
Burroughs, William S. Junky: The Definitive Text of “Junk.” London: Penguin, 2003.
Grauerholz, James. The Death of Joan Vollmer Burroughs: What Really Happened? Lawrence: American Studies Dept., University of Kansas, 2002 (not commercially published).
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Wills, David S. “Billy Burroughs: Gentleman Farmer.” Beatdom 11, 2012.
New Orleans
Nicosia, Gerald, and Anne Marie Santos. One and Only: The Untold Story of “On the Road.” Berkeley, CA: Viva, 2011.
Mexico and Latin America
Bedford, Sybille. A Visit to Don Otavio. London: Collins, 1960 (originally titled The Sudden View, 1953).
Burroughs, William S. “George Schmid.” In Robert Wilson, Tom Waits, and William Burroughs, The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets. Program for performance opening, Thalia Theater, Hamburg, March 31, 1990.
———. Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs. Edited by Oliver Harris. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2008.
García-Robles, Jorge (with the collaboration of James Grauerholz). The Wild Shot: William S. Burroughs in Mexico (1949–1952) (manuscript).
Grauerholz, James. The Death of Joan Vollmer Burroughs: What Really Happened? Lawrence: American Studies Dept., University of Kansas, 2002.
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Huxley, Aldous. Beyond the Mexique Bay. Chicago: Academy, 1985 (1934).
Innes, Hammond. The Conquistadors. London: Fontana, 1969.
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Kerouac, Jack. Mexico City Blues. New York: Grove, 1959.
———. Desolation Angels. London: Andre Deutsch, 1966.
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———. The Plumed Serpent. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1955.
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———. More Mishaps. San Francisco: Beach Books, Texts & Documents, 1968.
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New York Forties and Fifties
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———. Go. New York: New American Library, 1980 (novel).
———. Nothing More to Declare. New York: Dutton, 1967.
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———. Herbert Huncke Special Is
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———. The Evening Sun Turned Crimson. Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley, 1980.
———. Guilty of Everything. New York: Paragon, 1990.
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———. Vanity of Duluoz. London: Granada, 1982.
———. Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947–1954. New York: Viking, 2004.
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