Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 32 results for “william s burroughs”
Skip side bar filters

  • Naked Lunch

    The Restored Text

    by William S. Burroughs ...
    Since its original publication in Paris in 1959, Naked Lunch has become one of the most important novels of the twentieth century.Exerting its influence on the relationship of art and obscenity, it is one of the books that redefined not just literature but American culture. For the Burroughs enthusiast and the neophyte, this volume—that contains final-draft typescripts, numerous unpublished ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Queer

    by William S. Burroughs ...
    “A major work, Burroughs’s heart laid bare, the origin of his writing”—Allen GinsbergThe definitive text of William S. Burroughs’s early, long-unpublished novel, reissued on the seventieth anniversary of the year of its writing, now adapted for film directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Daniel CraigOriginally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is a haunting tale of possession ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Junky

    The Definitive Text of "Junk"

    by William S. Burroughs ...
    Junk is not, like alcohol or a weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.In his debut novel, Junky, Burroughs fictionalized his experiences using and peddling heroin and other drugs in the 1950s into a work that reads like a field report from the underworld of post-war America. The Burroughs-like protagonist of the novel, Bill Lee, see-saws between ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • You Can't Win

    by Jack Black ...
    Series series Tramp Lit Series
    You Can’t Win, the beloved memoir of real lowdown Americana by criminal hobo Jack Black, was first published in 1926, then reprinted in 1988 by Adam Parfrey’s Amok Press, featuring an introduction by William S. Burroughs.After its Amok Press edition went out of print, You Can’t Win found popularity once again with the AK Press edition.Feral House’s new version will take this classic American ... Read more

    $10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Speed and Kentucky Ham

    by William S. Burroughs ...
    A pair of autobiographical novels with "a compelling narrative that balances the methedrine horrors with the outcast's romantic search for identity" ( Rolling Stone).William S. Burroughs, Jr.—son of the legendary outlaw author of Naked Lunch—often felt he was "cursed from birth." Following in his father's footstep in tragically uncanny ways, Burroughs chronicled his own experiences in the novels ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • William S. Burroughs' "The Revised Boy Scout Manual"

    An Electronic Revolution

    by William S Burroughs ...
    Before the era of fake news and anti-fascists, William S. Burroughs wrote about preparing for revolution and confronting institutionalized power. In this work, Burroughs’ parody becomes a set of rationales and instructions for destabilizing the state and overthrowing an oppressive and corrupt government. As with much of Burroughs’ work, it is hard to say if it is serious or purely satire. The work ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Wild Boys

    A Book of the Dead

    by William S. Burroughs ...
    Series series Burroughs, William S.
    The Wild Boys is a futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to freedom battles the organized armies of repressive police states. Making full use of his inimitable humor, wild imagination, and style, Burroughs creates a world that is as terrifying as it is fascinating. ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • The Ticket That Exploded

    by William S. Burroughs ...
    Series series Burroughs, William S.
    As this new edition reveals, the cultural reach of The Ticket That Exploded has expanded with the viral logic of Burroughs’s multimedia methods, recycling itself into our digital environment. A last chance antidote to the virus of lies spread by the ad men and con men of the Nova Mob, Burroughs’s book is an outrageous hybrid of pulp science fiction, obscene experimental poetry, and manifesto for ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Nova Express

    by William S. Burroughs ...
    Series series Burroughs, William S.
    The most ferociously political and prophetic book of Burroughs's "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 the new edition demonstrates, the shortest of the three books was cut by Burroughs from an extraordinary wealth of typescripts to create a visionary demand to ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • The Soft Machine

    by William S. Burroughs ...
    Series series Burroughs, William S.
    In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will take us even further 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, bureaucracy, and addiction in all its forms, Burroughs gives us a surreal space odyssey through the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Come In with the Dutchman

    A Revised Screenplay Version of The Last Words of Dutch Schultz

    by William S. Burroughs ...
    “Burroughs’s voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American.”—Joan DidionThe layered, idiosyncratic screenplay about one of America’s most notorious gangsters by one of its greatest counterculture icons, available to readers for the first timeBefore he was gunned down in October 1935 in the Palace Chop House in Newark, New Jersey, Arthur Flegenheimer—alias ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

    PRE-ORDER

  • And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

    by William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac ...
    The legendary novel whose true events inspired the film KILL YOUR DARLINGSIn the summer of 1944, a shocking murder rocked the fledgling Beats. William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, both still unknown, we inspired by the crime to collaborate on a novel, a hard-boiled tale of bohemian New York during World War II, full of drugs and art, obsession and brutality, with scenes and characters drawn from ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook