In the recording studio, practicing for the reading of Naked Lunch. Lawrence 1992. Foto © Jon Blumb

TRUTH   "The purpose of my writing is to expose and arrest Nova Criminals: In Naked Lunch, Soft Machine and Nova Express I show who they are and what they are doing and what they will do if they are not arrested. Minutes to go. Souls rotten from their orgasm drugs, flesh shuddering from their nova ovens, prisoners of the earth to come out, With your help we can occupy The Reality Studio and retake their universe of Fear Death and Monopoly" (Signed) INSPECTOR J. LEE, NOVA POLICE

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K-9 Was in Combat with the Alien Mind-Screens (13:29)
Early cut-up of tapes made by Ian Sommerville and WSB around 1965, probably in New York and London.

Origin and Theory of the Tape Cut-Ups (3:43)
From a lecture given by WSB at the Jack Kerouac School of DDisembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute, April 20, 1976.

Recalling All Active Agents (1:25)
Excerpt from tape made in 1960 by Brion Gysin at BBC Studios in London, using BG's permutational technique.

Silver Smoke of Dreams
Tape made in early 1960s by Ian Sommerville and WSB, using the "drop-in" method.

Junk Relations (2:56)
Excerpt from a radio talk by WSB in 1961 in London. "A Day in the Life of a Junkie." Tape courtesy of the University of Kansas Libraries.

Jojuka (1:30)
Excerpt from live tape made by WSB at the Jojuka Fetival in the hills of Morocco with Ornette Coleman, Jan. 18, 1973.

Curse Go Back (1:12)
From early 1960s tape, WSB chanting an anti-curse.

Present Time Exercises (2:18)
Casette work by WSB in London, ca. 1971, using radio, television, several tape recorders.

Jojuka (0:42)

Working with the Popular Forces
WSB cut-ups with Dutch Schultz's last words and news texts, shortwave radio noise. Mid '60s, London

Interview with Mr. Martin (2:59)
Excerpt from WSB performance at the ICA in London, Feb. 28, 1963.

Jojuka (1:26)

Sound Piece (2:14)
Produced by Ian Somerville using the inching technique, 1960s?

Jojuka (2:39)

Burroughs Called the Law (1:34) down
WSB routine recorded mid-1960s - dropping a dime on the Nova Mob.

BBC : The Algebra of Need
15 May 1963 Third Programme - William S. Burroughs talks to Gary Goldhill about:
why he writes and who he writes for (1:12)
his mythology (4:23)
the cut up and fold in techniques as ways to construct a narrative (4:04)

Don Swaim Interviews with William Burroughs - From the CBS Radio show, Book Beat.
about his drug addiction, living in Tangiers, working as an exterminator, and his memories of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. 1984 (24:55)
talks about the censorship of his novels in America 1985 (34:29)

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Burroughs in the shop with F M Einheit
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dream (Dave Ball / Genesis P. Orridge) voices: Christiane F., W.S. Burroughs - text from "macbeth" & the LP "nothing here now but the recordings"
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Ah Pook the Destroyer
Ah Pook the Destroyer/Brion Gysin's All-Purpose Bedtime Story (Music: John Cale)

The Roland Collection of Films & Videos on Art - Writers Talk: Ideas of our time
William S Burroughs with Kathy Acker: Download Clip or View the Entire Film [real video]
Early connection with the beats - Verbal and visual thinking - Political ramifications of the cut-up method
Background to `Junkie', `Queer', and `The Naked Lunch'

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The last words of Hassan Sabbah
From "Junky"
What are you here for?
Words of advice

                Burroughs Bootleg
Naked Lunch - Excerpt from Chapter 1
Naked Lunch - Meeting of International Conference of Technological Psychiatry
Nova Express - The Fish Poison Con
Nova Express - Twilight's Last Gleaming / miscellaneous
Nova Express - Inflexible Authority
Nova Express / The Soft Machine - Uranian Willy
Junky
Exterminator - part 1
Exterminator - part 2
Ah Pook is Here
Cities of the Red Night

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Hunter S Thompson: Letter to WSB (And Ode to Jack Kerouac)

from Naked Lunch (1977)

from "The Wild Boys" (1974)

What Washington, What Orders (1974)

Keynote Commentary / Roosevelt After Inauguration (1978)

Benway (1978)

from The Gay Gun: This is Kim Carson / Just Like The Collapse of any Currency / The Whole Tamale (1978)

What the Nova Convention is About (1978)

Conversations | William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Timothy Leary, Les Levine, and Robert Anton Wilson (1978)

When Did I Stop Wanting to be President (1975)

"This, gentlemen, is a death dwarf..." (1965)

"Mister Bradley Mister Martin..." (1965)

I was traveling with The Intolerable Kid on The Nova Lark (8:15)

Translucent boy ; An excellent Time ; For Neal Cassidy (5:15)

William S. Burroughs Commisioner Of Sewers
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