BIBLIOGRAPHY

Goodman, Michael. William S. Burroughs: An Annotated Bibliography of His Works and Criticism. New York: Garland Publishing, 1975, 96 p.

Comprehensive primary and secondary bibliography to 1974.

CRITICISM

Acker, Kathy. “William Burroughs's Realism.” In Bodies of Work, pp. 1-5. London: Serpent's Tail, 1997.

Observes that in his novels, “Burroughs saw the society around him so clearly, he announced the future. Writing that seemed radical when it appeared today looks like journalism. In other words: today in the United States, we are living in the worlds of Burroughs's novel.”

Eburne, Jonathan Paul. “Trafficking in the Void: Burroughs, Kerouac, and the Consumption of Otherness.” Modern Fiction Studies 43, no. 1 (spring 1997): 53-92.

Examines elements of social and political subversion in Naked Lunch and Jack Kerouac's The Subterraneans.

Lyndenberg, Robin. Word Cultures: Radical Theory and Practice in William S. Burroughs's Fiction. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987, 205 p.

Stylistic and thematic analysis of Burroughs's experimental novels of the 1960s, from Naked Lunch to Nova Express.

Skerl, Jennie, and Lydenberg, Robin, eds. William S. Burroughs at the Front: Critical Reception, 1959-1989. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991, 274 p.

Reprints reviews and essays from the 1950s through the 1980s.

Additional coverage of Burroughs's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: American Writers Supplement, Vol. 3; Authors in the News, Vol. 2; Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction: Biography & Resources, Vol. 1; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 9-12R, 160; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vols. 20, 52, 104; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 1, 2, 5, 15, 22, 42, 75, 109; Contemporary Novelists, Ed. 7; Contemporary Popular Writers; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 2, 8, 16, 152, 237; Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, 1981, 1997; DISCovering Authors; DISCovering Authors: British Edition; DISCovering Authors: Canadian Edition; DISCovering Authors Modules: Most-studied Authors, Novelists, and Popular Fiction and Genre Authors; DISCovering Authors 3.0; Literature Resource Center; Major 20th-Century Writers, Eds. 1, 2; Reference Guide to American Literature, Ed. 4; St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers; St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers, Ed. 4; and World Literature Criticism.