Burroughs Unbound: An Atrophied Introduction / S.E. Gontarski
Part 1. Theory
Weaponized Aesthetics and Dystopian Modernism: Cut-ups, Playbacks, Pick-ups and the 'Limits of Control' from Burroughs to Deleuze / S.E. Gontarski
Pay It All Back: Writing Paranoia-Paranoid Writing / Nathan Moore
The Tension of Possibility: Reading Closure in Ah Pook through the Sum of the Multiframe / Ash Connell-Gonzalez
Fluidity and Fixity in William S. Burroughs' Writing / Allen Hibbard
Part 2. Texts
Making Dead Fingers Talk / Oliver Harris
Whale Drek: The Lost Footnotes of Naked Lunch / Jed Birmingham
'There are no typographical errors in this edition': Burroughs's Textual Infection of the New York School / Nick Sturm
'I spent months in the morgue': Williams S. Burroughs' appropropriation of TIME magazine / Tomasz Stompor
Digitizing the Word Hoard: Remediating Counter-Cultural Archives after the American Century / Alex Wermer-Colan
Mess, Taste, and Gastric Criticism: Digesting Naked Lunch / Rona Cran
Part 3. Performance
Performance in the Work of William S. Burroughs / John M. Bennett
Burroughs, Bowie, and the Reshaping of the Counterculture / Barry Faulk
The Alternative Press is News / Blake Stricklin
Appendix A. Evergreen on the Air: Barney Rosset on Censorship and Publishing Naked Lunch / [Transcript of 1962, WNYC radio broadcast], Barney Rosset, Publisher, Grove Press, 1951-1986
Appendix B. 'Lectures on the Virus,' selections from Burroughs's lectures at CCNY, 1974
Appendix C. Burroughs Manifest, the 'lost, found and lost again' Burroughs Archive at Florida State University, 12 September 1980 purchase
Appendix D. Supplemental Bucher purchases, 12 December,
Appendix E. Burroughs and Bucher, letters and notes 1978-9, 1984
Appendix F. 'A 30-year wait. A 16-mile journey.' The story of the 'lost' Burroughs Archive at Florida State University