William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) was an American author, painter, and spoken-word performer who has had a wide-ranging influence on American culture. Jack Kerouac called him the “greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.” Norman Mailer declared him “the only American writer who may be conceivably possessed by genius.” A postmodernist and a key figure of the beat generation, he focused his art on a relentless subversion of the moral, political, and economic conventions of modern American society, as reflected in his often darkly humorous and sardonic satire. He wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six short-story collections, and four collections of essays. No fewer than five books of his interviews and correspondence have been published. He also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians and made many appearances in films. He was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1983 and in the following year was appointed to the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.

All Books By William S. Burroughs

Cities of the Red Night
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Cities of the Red Night
  • By: William S. Burroughs
  • Narrator: Ray Porter
  • Length: 9 hours 33 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2016
  • Language: English
  • (4363 ratings)
(4363 ratings)
From one of the founders of the beat generation and the 1960s counterculture comes this opening novel of a series available now in audio for the first time. An opium addict is lost in the jungle; young men wage war against an empire of mutants; a... Read more
Exterminator!
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Exterminator!
  • By: William S. Burroughs
  • Narrator: Richard Powers
  • Length: 4 hours 57 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2016
  • Language: English
  • (2559 ratings)
(2559 ratings)
Conspirators plot to explode a train carrying nerve gas. A perfect servant suddenly reveals himself to be the insidious Dr. Fu Manchu. Science-fantasy wars, racism, corporate capitalism, drug addiction, and various medical and psychiatric horrors... Read more
Naked Lunch
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Naked Lunch
  • By: William S. Burroughs
  • Narrator: Mark Bramhall
  • Length: 10 hours 24 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2009
  • Language: English
  • (75936 ratings)
(75936 ratings)
Naked Lunch is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Exerting its influence on authors like Thomas Pynchon, J. G. Ballard, and William Gibson; on the relationship between art and obscenity; and on the shape of music, film, and... Read more
Nova Express
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Nova Express
  • By: William S. Burroughs
  • Narrator: Ramiz Monsef
  • Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2016
  • Language: English
  • (2787 ratings)
(2787 ratings)
The most ferociously political and prophetic book of the Cut-Up Trilogy, Nova Express fires the reader into a textual outer space, the better to see our burning planet and the operations of the Nova Mob in all their ugliness. As with The Soft... Read more
The Place of Dead Roads
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The Place of Dead Roads
  • By: William S. Burroughs
  • Narrator: Ray Porter
  • Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2016
  • Language: English
  • (2004 ratings)
(2004 ratings)
From the beat generation and counterculture author William S. Burroughs comes the second novel of the Red Night trilogy, available in audio for the first time. This surreal fable, set in America’s Old West, features a cast of notorious... Read more
The Soft Machine
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The Soft Machine
  • By: William S. Burroughs
  • Narrator: Ramiz Monsef
  • Length: 6 hours 20 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2016
  • Language: English
  • (5388 ratings)
(5388 ratings)
In The Soft Machine, William S. Burroughs begins an adventure that will take us into the dark recesses of his imagination, a region where nothing is sacred, nothing taboo. Continuing his ferocious verbal assault on hatred, hype, poverty, war,... Read more
The Ticket That Exploded
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The Ticket That Exploded
  • By: William S. Burroughs
  • Narrator: Ramiz Monsef
  • Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2016
  • Language: English
  • (2105 ratings)
(2105 ratings)
In The Ticket That Exploded, William S. Burroughs’ grand “cut-up” trilogy that starts with The Soft Machine and continues through Nova Express reaches its climax as inspector Lee and the Nova Police engage the Nova Mob in a... Read more
The Western Lands
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The Western Lands
  • By: William S. Burroughs
  • Narrator: Ray Porter
  • Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2016
  • Language: English
  • (1852 ratings)
(1852 ratings)
Here is the final novel of Burroughs’ Red Night trilogy, available in audio for the first time. A fascinating mix of autobiographical episodes and extraordinary Egyptian theology, Burroughs’ final novel is poignant and melancholic.... Read more

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