William S. Burroughs
William Seward Burroughs II was an American writer and visual artist. He is widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced both underground and popular culture and literature. Much of Burroughs's work is highly experimental and features unreliable narrators. Also noted as semi-autobiographical, his work often drew from his experiences with drug addiction, and featured his various places of residence as settings in much of his work. With Brion Gysin, Burroughs popularized the cut-up, an aleatory literary technique. His writing also engaged frequent mystical, occult, or otherwise magical themes, constant preoccupations in both his fiction and real life.
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🎬 Movies
This Is Buzz
actor
2026
Nova '78
actor
2025
Queer
writer
2024
Uncle Howard
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2017
William S. Burroughs in the Dreamachine
actor
2015
Joy Division
actor
2009
The Book of Life
actor
1998
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
actor
1994
The Junky's Christmas
writer
1993
The Junky's Christmas
actor
1993
Naked Making Lunch
actor
1992
Naked Lunch
writer
1991
Wax, or The Discovery of Television Among the Bees
actor
1991
The Black Rider
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1990
The Black Rider
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1990
Drugstore Cowboy
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1989
Twister
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1989
Home of the Brave: A Film by Laurie Anderson
actor
1986
Decoder
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1984
Burroughs: The Movie
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1984
The Discipline of D.E.
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1982
Taking Tiger Mountain
writer
1982
Pirates: William Burroughs in London
actor
1982
📖 Books
And the hippos were boiled in their tanks
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2008
My education
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1995
Queer
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1985
The Job
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1985
The place of dead roads
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1983
Cities of the Red Night
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1981
Blade runner
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1979
The job
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1974
The wild boys
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1971
Speed
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1970
Nova Express (Evergreen Black Cat Book, BC-102)
author
1964
The Yage Letters
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1963
The ticket that exploded
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1962
The Soft Machine
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1961
Naked Lunch
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1959
Junky
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1953