Food and Drug Administration, U.S. (FDA), 96–98, 106, 180
Forcade, Tom, 122, 127
Ford, Ford Madox, 84
Fortune, Dion, 186–87
Fortune magazine, 194
Fournier, Alain, 142
Foye, Raymond, 107, 127–28
France, Anatole, xx
Fremont, Vincent, 162
Freud, Sigmund, 138–41, 186
Fulton, Robert, 133
Fusion Party, 174
General Semantics (Korzybski), 140
Genet, Jean, xxiii, 1, 14–16, 18, 66, 74, 248
Getty, J. Paul, 132
Getty J. Paul, Jr., 60, 120, 122, 132
Gide, Andre, xx, 15, 100, 101
Ginsberg, Allen, xiii, xv, 15–16, 18, 21–22, 25, 26, 34, 39–40, 42, 57, 58, 71, 73, 77, 123, 126, 151–53, 158, 171–76, 180, 198, 199, 201, 203, 207, 209–10, 212, 213
Giorno, John, xiii, xv, 51, 91, 145, 151, 153, 154, 191, 197, 198, 200, 201, 203
Girodias, Maurice, 25–26, 57, 211, 214
Goldberg, Jeff, 59, 111–15
Goldberg, Mike, 145, 152, 153
Goldstein, Al, 219
Grauerholz, James, xiii, xiv, 2, 33–34, 65, 77–78, 83–87, 90–91, 122, 129, 130, 133, 135–37, 157–58, 199, 217, 219, 241, 243
Great Gatsby, The (film), 119
Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald), 120
Greene, Graham, 12, 28, 153
Grossman, Albert, 34
Gysin, Brion, xv, 5–6, 12, 14, 19, 26, 63, 70, 74–77, 83, 194, 219–20, 222, 248
Hall, Jerry, 222, 223
Hammond, John, Jr., 34
Haring, Keith, xv, 242
Harris, Frank, 58
Harry, Deborah, xiv, 87–88, 167, 230
Harvard University, xxi
Hassan i Sabbah, 116
Heard, John, 122–23
Heart of Darkness, (Conrad), 192
Heartbeat (film), 121–26
Hell, Richard, 138
Hemingway, Ernest, 1, 100, 194
High Times (magazine), 13, 47, 64, 114, 122
Hitler, Adolf, 3, 168, 198, 199
Hollerer, Professor, 207
Howl (Ginsberg), 15
Hughes, Howard, 132, 207–9
Hujar, Peter, 83
Huncke, Herbert, 42, 170, 201
Huxley, Aldous, 135
Huxley, Francis, 135
Indica bookstore, London, 77
Inheritors, The (Conrad/Ford), 84
Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, 70
Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 196
International Times (newspaper), 72
Isherwood, Christopher, xiv, 89–91, 119–20, 122, 207
Jacobson, Max, 110
Jagger, Bianca, 22–23
Jagger, Mick, xiv, 73, 157, 220–25
Jaynes, Julian, 5, 9–10, 138
Job, The (Burroughs), 76
Johns, Jasper, 225
Jordan, Fred, 156, 207, 213–14
Journeys Out of the Body (Monroe), 183–84
Joyce, James, 21, 156, 210, 213, 215
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), 119
Junky (Burroughs), 13, 15, 19, 115
Kamerrer, David, 81
Kennedy, Robert F., 167–68
Kerouac, Jack, xiv, xxii, xxiii, 9, 19, 21, 22, 24–25, 42, 81–82, 89, 121–23, 158, 171, 199
Kerouac (Burroughs), 13
Khomeini, Ayotollah, 172, 173
Killers of the Sea, 130
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 6
Kissinger, Henry, 172, 174–75
Koestler. Arthur, 130, 135
Korzybski, Alfred, 140
Kowalski (artist), 160–61
Kristol, Irving, 176
Last Exit to Brooklyn (Selby), 18
Last Tycoon, The (film), 119–20
Last Words of Dutch Schultz, The (Burroughs), 13, 14, 76
Last Year at Marienbad (film), 155
Laszlo, Carl, 201–3
Leary, Timothy, 106, 121–22, 178
Leon-Talley, André, 61, 62, 177–78
Lewis, Sinclair, 1, 16
Life magazine, 194
Light Reading for Light Years (Burroughs), 3
Los Alamos Ranch School, New Mexico, xx, 53–56, 117–18
Lotringer, Sylvere, 93, 198
Lotus Crew, The (Meyer), xiii
Love Habit, The: Sexual Confessions of an Older Woman (Cummings), 42
Lowe, Steven, 143
McCarthy, Mary, 42, 142
McCartney, Paul, 72–73
McCuller, Carson, 42
McNeil, Legs, xxiii, 138
McNeil, Malcolm, 91
Mailer, Norman, xxiii
Majestic (Strieber), 242
Malanga, Gerard, 2, 16–18, 27–28, 31–32, 59, 61–63, 82–83, 93, 193
Mann, Elsa, 41, 47
Mann, Thomas, 41
Marathon Man (film), 120
Marker, Lewis Adelbert, 44
Marx, Karl, 170
Mason, Felicity, 42
Mass, Steve, 116
Maugham, W. Somerset, 22
Mayfair magazine, 76
Mead, Taylor, 163
Meyer, Stewart, xiii, xxii, 1–2, 34–37, 200–201
Michaux, Henri, 15
Miles, 19–21, 47, 70, 72–77, 151, 158
Miller, Henry, 126–27, 132
Mondale, Walter, 175
Monroe, Robert, 183–84
Montague, Lord, 58
Montfort, Michael, 134
Morgan, Ted, xiii, 158
Naked Lunch (Burroughs), xxiii, 9, 21–24, 26, 56, 71, 114, 120, 126, 171, 194, 195, 220, 241
Naked Lunch (film), xv
Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado, 129, 136
Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 176
National Committee on Labor (Fusion Party), 174
New York Times, The, 171
Night at the Inn, A (Dunsany), 117
Nixon, Richard M., 168
Nolte, Nick, 123, 126
Nova Convention (New York, 1978), xii, 93, 122
Nova Express (Burroughs), xii, 76
O’Brien, Glenn, 27, 114, 177
O’Connor, Flannery, 42
O’Grady, Panna, 42, 73
On the Road (Kerouac), 171
One Arm (Williams), 110
O’Neill, Eugene, 90
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 53
Orbison, Roy, 102
Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, The (Jaynes), 5, 9–10
Orlovsky, Peter, 57, 158, 172, 176
Orwell, Sonia, 42, 199
OSS, xxi
Our Man in Havana (Greene), 196
Owens, Iris, 211
Palmer, Robert, xv
Parker, Dorothy, 42
Pasolini, Pier Paolo, 137–38
Picasso, Pablo, 100
Pini, Sr., 142
Pivano, Fernanda, 42, 201
Place of Dead Roads, The (Burroughs), xiv, xxiii, 158
Podhoretz, Norman, 176
Port of Saints (Burroughs), 75, 76
Portrait of Dorian Gray, The (Wilde), xx
Presley, Elvis, xii, xiii
Prisoner of Love (Genet), 248
Proust, Marcel, 14–15
Psychic Self-Defense (Fortune), 186–87
Punk rock movement, xi–xiii, xv, 127–28
Queen of Spades, The (Pushkin), 27
Quiet American, The (Greene), 12
Reader’s Digest, 193
Reagan, Ronald, 38
Rebel Without a Cause (film), 127
Rechy, John, 18
Reed, Lou, xiv, xv, 13–14, 18–19, 25, 115, 214–15
Reich, Wilhelm, 3, 63
Reinholdjohn, 163–65
Remembrance of Things Past (Proust), 14–15
Renaldo and Clara (film), 34
Resnick, Marcia, 41, 99, 222–24
Retreat Diaries (Burroughs), 85, 130, 197
Reza
Pahlevi, Shah of Iran, 172–75
Rich, Bill, 241
Richards, Keith, xiii, 157, 220–23
Richter, Damita, 158, 203–5
Rimbaud, Arthur, 16, 101
Robbe-Grillet, Alain, 155–56
Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 168–69
Rockefeller, David, 172, 174–75
Roeg, Nicholas, xiv, 12–13
Rolling Stone (periodical), 122
Rolling Stones, the, xii, 74, 220–25. See also individual band members
Romance (Conrad/Ford), 84
Rooks, Conrad, 8
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 171
“Roosevelt After Inauguration” (Burroughs), 71
Roots of Coincidence (Koestler), 130, 135
“Rubber Soul” (record album), 72–73
Ruskin, Mickey, 101
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 14, 15
Schnell, David, 56–57, 195
Schultz, Dutch, 14
Screw (magazine), 219
Search & Destroy (newspaper), 127
Secret Mullings About Bill (Kerouac), xiv
Selby, Hugh, 18
Seventh Seal, The (film), 16
Sex Pistols, xi, 127
Shakespeare, William, xvi, 13, 119
Shaw, George Bernard, 156
Shockley (geneticist), 222
Sinclair, John, 170
Smith, Patti, xi, xv, xxiii, 42, 47–49, 128
Snows of Kilimanjaro, The (Hemingway), 194
Society of Inner Light, 186
Soft Machine, The (Burroughs), 26
Soft Need (periodical), 201
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 84
Sommerville, Ian, 70, 72, 197, 204, 205
Sonta, Susan, xiv, 1–4, 42, 49, 50, 79, 115, 168, 170–71, 207, 209–13, 224
Southern, Terry, xiv, xv, 63–64, 95–105, 120–21, 151
Spacek, Sissy, 123–26
Spence, Lewis, 185–86, 197, 204
Stalin, Joseph, 170
Starkey, Ray, 126
Starr, Ringo, 72
Stein, Chris, 87–88, 230
Stein, Gertrude, 14, 100
Strieber, Anne, 242
Strummer, Joe, xiv, xv, 228–29
Syberberg (film director), 3
Taylor, Gordon, 106
They Do Not Always Remember (Burroughs), 32
Tibetan Book of the Dead, The, 198
Ticket That Exploded, The (Burroughs), ix, 26
Time magazine, 56–57, 84, 194–95
To Have and Have Not (film), 126
Toller, Ernst, 41–42
Tolstoy, Leo, 170
Towers Open Fire (Balch), 70
Town & the City, The (Kerouac), 81–82
Trafficante, Santo, 167–68
Transformation (Strieber), 242
Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (Traven), 120
Trinity (Uris), 193
Truman, Harry S., 171
Tynan, Kenneth, 122
Ulysses (Joyce), 21
Verdiglione (psychoanalyst), 141, 142
Victory (Conrad), 46
Vidal, Gore, 58
Villon, François, 100
Volhner, Joan, 42–44, 46–47, 56–57, 171
Waites, Tom, xv
Waldman, Anne, xv, 42, 129, 201, 203
Warhol, Andy, xiii, xiv, xv, xxii–xxiii, 41, 53–58, 61–62, 67–70, 117, 138, 162–65, 177–78, 192, 203, 220, 222–24
Waste Land, The (Eliot), 93
Watt (Beckett), 215
Waugh, Evelyn, 28
Webber, Peter, 17–18
Weissner, Carl, 8–9
Welch, Demon, 12–13, 22
Welty, Eudora, 42
West, Jim, 42
Western Lands (Burroughs), xiv
White, Phil, 111
Wild Boys, The (Burroughs), 74
Wild Party, The (Joseph Moncure March), 148
Wilde, Oscar, xx, 57
William Burroughs Communications, 136
Williams, Tennessee, xiv, 28–30, 109–10, 116, 205
Wilson, Robert, xv, 242
Woolf, Virginia, 79
Wyman, Bill, xii, 217–19
Wyman, Ingrid, 218
Yage Letters (Burroughs/Ginsberg), 198
You Can’t Win (Black), xx–xxi
Zappa, Frank, xv, 191–93
Acknowledgments
Among the many people who helped compose With William Burroughs, I would like to thank all our actors and crew, drawing special attention to Mr. James Grauerholz, Burroughs’s erstwhile factotum, who encouraged and aided the project throughout; Mr. Terry Southern, who was particularly helpful; and the éminence grise himself, grand, groovy and beloved William S. Burroughs.
In 1978, the National Endowment for the Arts gave me a writer’s grant on the basis of an outline for this book. The late Tom Forcade, founder and owner of High Times, provided funds that enabled me to follow Burroughs to Colorado, Los Angeles, Berlin, and London. Interview directed me toward the basic concept of the book as a dinner party and printed some of these conversations in earlier forms. Thanks its editors, to Bob Colacello and Robert Hayes. And in the final presentation of the text, I am especially indebted to my editor, Jeannette Seaver. And my new editor, Jim Fitzgerald.
About the Author
Born in England in 1949, Victor Bockris has spent most of his working life in the United States. He has written biographies of artists, writers, and musicians, including Warhol: The Biography, With William Burroughs: A Report from the Bunker, Uptight: The Velvet Underground Story, Transformer: The Complete Lou Reed Story, and Keith Richards: The Biography. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971, Bockris cofounded Telegraph Books, an independent publisher of emerging writers, with poets Aram Saroyan and Andrew Wylie. Bockris moved to New York City in 1973, where he went on to work with many icons of the city’s art and literary community during the Beat Punk period of 1977–1983. Dubbed the poet laureate of the New York Underground, Bockris continues to publish books around the world. He is currently writing Scars: My Life in the New York Underground.
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