"William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll" (2019)

Austin, Texas, US: University of Texas Press (book, biography), 2019.
9.25" x 6.375" x 1", 304 pages, hardcover with dust-jacket, ISBN 978-1-4773-1650-4.

William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll by Casey Rae, as published in hardcover by University of Texas Press (Austin, Texas, US) in 2019.  This is an exploration of William S. Burroughs' influence in rock music and related culture. An index is included.

Cover image of David Bowie and William S. Burroughs is by Terry O'Neill. Cover design by Monograph/Matt Avery.

Contents: 

• Introduction
• "Nirvana the Hard Way"
• "El Hombre Invisible" [Burroughs in Lawrence, Kansas]
• "Teen Spirit and Other Viruses" [on Nirvana and Burroughs' theories of word-virus and Control]
• "Radio-Friendly Unit Shifter" [on Kurt Cobain and the music culture of the late '80s and early '90s]
• "Come as You Are" [on Nirvana and Kurt Cobain's connections to and collaboration with William S. Burroughs]
• "Scentless Apprentice" [on Burroughs and Ginsberg visiting Louis-Ferdinand Céline in 1958]
• "He Like to Shoot His Guns" [on Cobain's visit to Lawrence and on Burroughs' relationship with guns]
• "Something in the Way" [on Joan Vollmer, her shooting, and the "Carr-Kammerer Affair"]
• "All Apologies" [on the aftermath of the Vollmer shooting, on Cobain's suicide, on Burroughs' death]
• "Subterranean Homesick Burroughs"
• "Simple Twist of Fate" [on Burroughs and Ginsberg, the search for Yage]
• "Born Under a Bad Sign" [on Burroughs' early life, his interest in the occult, his experiments]
• "Appetite for Destruction" [the dual interest to create and destroy]
• "Fallout Boy" [on Burroughs at the Los Alamos Ranch School, on the bomb, on time travel]
• "Gotta Serve Somebody" [on Burroughs at the Los Alamos Ranch School]
• "Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I'll Go Mine)" [Burroughs at Harvard, in Nazi-era Europe, Ilsa Klapper]
• "Secret Agent Man" [Burroughs' interest in spycraft]
• "Bringing It All Back Home" [Burroughs in the '40s; Bob Dylan; Burroughs' in the mid-'60s]
• "Here, There, and Everywhere"
• "The Future Leaks Out" [Burroughs in England; Cut-Ups; Brion Gysin]
• "Checking In, Checking Out" [Paris, the Beat Hotel; The Naked Lunch] 
• "Life of Brion" [Brion Gysin; collaboration]
• "Getting Naked" [Naked Lunch]
• "Doctor, Doctor" [Dr. Dent; Dr. Benway]
• "I Fought the Law" [Maurice Girodias of Olympia Press; legal challenges; Barney Rosset]
• "London Calling" [Paul McCartney and the Beatles]
• "Their Satanic Majesties Request" [Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones, Brian Jones, Joujouka
• "Miles Ahead" [Barry Miles]
• "Watch That Man" [begins with Burroughs & David Bowie]
• "Future Legend" [on David Bowie]
• "Cracked Actor" [David Bowie; the power of sound]
• "Watch That Man" [the Bowie/Burroughs interview]
• "The Supermen" [Bowie and the occult]
• "Boys Keep Swinging" [on scandalous statements and behavior]
• "Seven Years in Tibet" [Buddhism and Eastern mysticism]
• "Under Pressure" [Antony Balch and the films with Burroughs; tape recorder experiments; Scientology; the return to New York]
• "Men of Good Fortune" [Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground; Andy Warhol; the Symbolists]
• "The Phantom of Rock Meets El Hombre Invisible" [Lou Reed]
• "Music and Other Dark Arts" [begins with discussion of Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin and of the occult]
• "Industrial Strength" [Industrial music; Throbbing Gristle; Genesis P-Orridge; occulture] 
• "Dreams and Other Mutations" [Genesis P-Orridge; Brion Gysin' the Dreamachine; sampling in music; occult; Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth]
• "Astral Disasters" [Psychic TV; Cabaret Voltaire; Coil]
• "Coming Down the Mountain" [Cities of the Red Night; Hassan-i Sabbah; Aleister Crowley; Bill Laswell and Material]
• "Bunkers, Punkers, and Junkies"
• "Nova Mob" [The Nova Convention]
• "Back in NYC" [New York City; The Bunker; James Grauerholz]
• "Society of the Spectacle" [Punk music; drugs]
• "Hell Is for Children" [Punk, Richard Hell
• "High on Rebellion" [Patti Smith]
• "Girls and Boys" [Patti Smith]
• "A Punk Is Born" [Patti Smith; Richard Hell; move to Kansas]
• "Here to Go"
• "Books of the Dead" [Cabaret Voltaire; Joy Division; One World Poetry Convention; The Grateful Dead]
• "Interzone to Eurozone" [The Final Academy; Scandinavian touring
• "This Is Hardcore" [Dead Kennedys; Iggy Pop and the Stooges; Hüsker Dü]
• "William S. Burroughs Superstar" [John Giorno and Giorno Poetry Systems; Gus Van Sant; Dead City Radio; The Black Rider; Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales]
• "Cutting into the Future" [Devo interview; the Internet]
• "The Western Lands"
• "Home on the Range" [Burroughs in Lawrence, Kansas; James Grauerholz]
• "Making Lunch" [Cronenberg's Naked Lunch]
• "Magick and Loss" [death of Brion Gysin; death of Allen Ginsberg; death of Timothy Leary; Burroughs' artwork]
• "Youth Movement" [Sonic Youth]
• "Just One Fix" [Al Jourgensen and Ministry]
• "Space Oddities" [Burroughs' interest in UFOs]
• "The Western Lands" [The Western Lands; the death of Burroughs]
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Index