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Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (2015)
Junky: The Definitive Text of ‘Junk’ (2008)
The Yage Letters Redux (2008)
The Letters of William S. Burroughs, Volume 1 1945–1959 (1993)
Rub Out the Words: Letters 1959–1974 (2013)
Last Words: The Final Journals (2001)
Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960–1997 (2002)
The Job Interviews with William S Burroughs (2008)
The Adding Machine (2013)
Blade Runner: a movie (2010)
Ghost of Chance (2002)
Apo-33 Health Bulletin: A Metabolic Regulator (1968)
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Extracts from the works of William Burroughs used by permission of
The William S. Burroughs Trust and The Wylie Agency Ltd.
‘Twilight’s Last Gleamings’, copyright © 1989 by William S. Burroughs. All rights reserved.
Naked Lunch, copyright © 1959 by William S. Burroughs. Copyright renewed © 1987, 1990 by William S. Burroughs. Restored text copyright © 2001 by the William S. Burroughs Trust. All rights reserved.
‘Ghost of Chance’, copyright © 1991 by William S. Burroughs. All rights reserved.
The Ticket that Exploded, copyright © William S. Burroughs, 1962, 1964, 1967. All rights reserved.
Rub Out the Words: Letters 1959–1974, copyright © 2012 by the Estate of William S. Burroughs. All rights reserved.
Junkie, copyright © William S. Burroughs, 1953
The Yage Letters, copyright © by William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg 1963, 1975. Copyright © The William Burroughs Trust, 2006. Copyright © The Allen Ginsberg Trust, 2006. All rights reserved
The Letters of William S Burroughs 1945–1959, copyright © 1993 by William S. Burroughs. All rights reserved.
‘Letter from a Master Addict to Dangerous Drugs’, copyright © 1957 by William S. Burroughs. All rights reserved.
The Beginning is Also the End, copyright © 1963 by William S. Burroughs. All rights reserved.
Bladerunner: a movie, copyright © 1979, 1986, 1990 by The Estate of William S. Burroughs. All rights reserved.
The Job, copyright © William S. Burroughs and Daniel Odier, 1969, 1970, 1974. All rights reserved.