The William S. Burroughs Page

The William S. Burroughs Page
	William Seward Burroughs, born February 5, 1914, died August 2, 1997, at age 83. He suffered a heart attack and died about 24 hours later, in his hometown of Lawrence, Kansas. Buroughs' work and especially his experiments with tape and literary cutups have had a profound effect, directly and indiretcly via the work of Daevid Allen, Brian Eno, David Bowie and others.
Malcolm Humes offers a web memorial zone with a comments/guestbook area for you to share your thoughts, memories and anecdotes about WSB. The www.hyperreal.org/wsb/ Burroughs site started as a list of Buroughs related recordings on Usenet in 1991 and it grew into the first site on the web dedicated to Burroughs and his work. We will try to offer a better multimedia retrospective here since the passing of Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg.

Our new comments/guestbook section is for folks to add comments, thoughts, memories, anecdotes and such about William S. Burroughs and how he or his work have impacted your life.

There is a page of Burroughs GIFs by lazerv at www.dadadisco.com.

A page featuring a reprint of some 1970's interviews that ran in Creem Magazine, courtesy of Jeffrey Morgan.

"Language is a virus..."

"We must find out what words are and how they function.
They become images when written down,
but images of words repeated in the mind
and not of the image of the thing itself."
- W.S. Burroughs

THE BURROUGHS FILE: An electronic reference guide to works of William Seward Burroughs, his literary works, recordings, film, video appearances, samples, and other publications.

About the Burroughs InterNetWebZone

Ports of Entry: William S. Burroughs and the Arts, an exhibit and symposium.

A Burroughs Family album

The Bibliography: Books & publications by William S. Burroughs

Books & publications about or referencing Burroughs

Recordings

Burroughs in films and videos

Other items of potential interest

They Do Not Always Remember

Other Internet sites with Burroughs connections (additional links are found ayt the footer of the Memorial page.)

Literary Kicks is a great project on the Beats, by Levi Asher, full of info on Burroughs, Ginsberg and friends.
The unofficial William Burroughs Homepage is part of web-zine called Firehorse and includes some nicely marked up etexts.
Steven Shaviro has written a chapter on William S. Burroughs as part of his Doom Patrols book, which is in draft stages and described by him as "theoretical fiction about postmodernism."
Reality's Burroughs page is another offering of Burroughsness.
Bring the Noise! William S. Burroughs and Music in the Expanded Field by Brent Wood, from Postmodern Culture.
Visit the Burroughs gopher surver at wps.com
various Burroughs etexts can be found at this "Reading List" which is part of Eric Nyberg's pages. Eric also has a text mutilation program called Travesty that appears to be Burroughs influenced or related to cutups.
The St. Louis Walk of Fame has a William Burroughs page.

last revised: August 2003

The William S. Burroughs Page

"We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but images of words repeated in the mind and not of the image of the thing itself." - W.S. Burroughs

"We must find out what words are and how they function.
They become images when written down,
but images of words repeated in the mind
and not of the image of the thing itself."
- W.S. Burroughs