Audiobook of Barry Miles' "Call Me Burroughs" (2014)

New York City: Blackstone/Hachette Audio (CD, audiobook), 2014.
cased: 6" x 6.875" x 1.5", 24 discs, ~29.5 hours of audio, ISBN 978-1-4789-8181-7.

Call Me Burroughs by Barry Miles, as read by Malcolm Hillgartner, produced as a 24-CD audiobook by Blackstone/Hachette Audio (New York City) in 2014. Cover design by Catherine Casalino with a photograph of Burroughs by John "Hoppy" Hopkins.

The physical book that this (unexpurgated) reading is from is in the archive here. 

This specific 24-disc copy is a former library copy.

Disc 1 (pages 1-28): 

1. "Hachette Audio presents.../Introduction" (3'35")
2. "Burroughs had warned the shaman of the challenge..." (2'34")
3. "Burroughs believed the Ugly Spirit was responsible for the key act that had determined his life..." (2'23")
4. "The shaman was making his way around the lodge..." (2'32")
5. "Then the shaman approached Bill and touched him with a red-hot coal..." (3'40")
6. "Finally the ceremony ended..." (2'54")
7. "Book One: An Education..." (3'48")
8. "Laura and Mortimer Burroughs lived on Berlin Avenue..." (2'21")
9. "Mote was a keen gardener..." (2'27")
10. "Laura's parents came from a religious background..." (2'29")
11. "Laura, born in Atlanta in 1888..." (2'24")
12. "He died suddenly of a brain tumor during a board meeting..." (2'04")
13. "The first William Seward Burroughs was the son of Edmund Burroughs and Ellen Julia Whipple..." (3'04")
14. "Meanwhile, in 1880, William and Ida had their first child..." (4'00")
15. "Of the four children, only Mote and Helen made a success of their lives..." (2'22")
16. "Bill's favorite uncle was Horace..." (2'56")
17. "Mote met Laura Hammond Lee on one of his frequent visits..." (1'54")
18. "In 1929, Mote sold for $276,000..." (2'15")
19. "Chapter Two..." (1'54")
20. "Burroughs described his father as reticent..." (2'29")
21. "Bill's mother was clearly a profound influence on his life..." (2'53")
22. "One morning, aged four, he woke up early..." (3'05")
23. "But it was Billy's Welsh nanny Mary Evans..." (1'57")
24. "When he was old enough, Bill shared a room with his brother..." (3'09")
25. "We are prepared to divulge all..." (2'16")
26. "Two: The Autobiography of a Wolf..." (2'56")
27. "Bill wrote his first book at the community school when he was eight years old..." (2'37")
28. "On the other side was Doctor Blair..." (2'36")

Disc 2 (pages 28-53): 

1. "The River des Peres flooded in August 1915..." (3'15")
2. "St. Albans was probably used mostly as a weekend retreat..." (3'09")
3. "Burroughs use of the word 'nostalgia' in a memoir..." (1'56")
4. "Bill spent part of the summer of 1924 when he was ten..." (2'16")
5. "Chapter Three..." (2'08")
6. "Most of the children from the community school..." (4'03")
7. "St. Louis had its first radio station in 1921..." (1'58")
8. "It was at the community school where Bill met Richard Kammerer..." (3'05")
9. "Kells was entirely heterosexual..." (2'23")
10. "Two: Meet the Johnson Family..." (2'00")
11. "Bill continued to write stories, mostly lurid adventure tales..." (2'24")
12. "Bill and all of his friends had chemistry sets..." (3'50")
13. "Bill and Mort had attended the Los Alamos Ranch School..." (2'44")
14. "Chapter Four..." (3'19")
15. "The station wagon bumped across the desert..." (2'28")
16. "The Big House and Fuller Lodge were surrounded by..." (2'42")
17. "Lunch at 1 p.m. was the main meal..." (2'48")
18. "Despite the school's location, Native American history was not on the syllabus..." (3'53")
19. "Bill had a crush on one of the other boys..." (2'46")
20. "This first encounter with the official opprobrium toward homosexuality..." (2'15")
21. "Back in St. Louis, Bill spent two months at the Evans tutoring school..." (3'31")
22. "Two: Billy Bradshinkle..." (2'39")
23. "I remember the last time I saw Billy..." (2'55")
24. "Chapter Five..." (3'49")
25. "The biggest subject of debate on campus at the time was Communism and the 'Russian Experiment'..." (2'36")
26. "Harvard could've been a lonely place..." (3'58")

Disc 3 (pages 53-80): 

1. "For his sophomore year, Burroughs moved to Adams house..." (3'37")
2. "Another time, Bill invited Stern over for a drink..." (3'48")
3. "In his junior year, Bill took refuge from the food at Adams house..." (2'59")
4. "Bill was twenty-one, but he had never had a lover..." (3'06")
5. "Chapter Six..." (2'35")
6. "They took a short trip to Salzburg..." (2'09")
7. "Dubrovnik, in Yugoslavia, was an important stop-off for the international gay set..." (3'42")
8. "Two: Mrs. Burroughs..." (2'21")
9. "Before starting his studies, Burroughs took a bus trip south through Albania..." (3'48")
10. "On March 1st, he enrolled instead in the Diplomatische Akademie..." (3'54")
11. "Bill's family were still sending frantic messages..." (2'06")
12. "Three: Enter Doctor Benway..." (3'58")
13. "That summer Burroughs moved back to Harvard..." (3'15")
14. "'I see now that the curse of the diary was broken temporarily...'" (2'27")
15. "Ilse Herzfeld Klapper Burroughs arrived in New York..." (3'25")
16. "Chapter Seven..." (2'35")
17. "that things were not their labels was one of his main points..." (1'54")
18. "Burroughs took his Fall 1939 and Spring 1940 anthropology courses..." (2'12")
19. "Two: Jack Anderson..." (3'13")
20. "Bill was becoming irrational..." (2'49")
21. "He crudely bandaged his finger..." (2'45")
22. "Bill's mother arrived, and Bill told her he was interested in perceptions of pain..." (2'18")
23. "Three: St. Louis Return..." (2'41")
24. "Bill's friend David Kammerer had attended..." (2'32")
25. "Lucien's father, Russell Carr, had walked out on his family..." (2'24")
26. "Lucien Carr..." (2'28")

Disc 4 (pages 80-109): 

1. "Four: A Very Private Pilot..." (3'23")
2. "In New York, before the finger incident..." (2'14")
3. "He felt guilty about living off them..." (2'05")
4. "In the meantime, America was attacked at Pearl Harbor..." (2'44")
5. "He had nothing to do..." (3'22")
6. "Chapter Eight..." (3'09")
7. "The wartime labor shortage meant that anyone could get a job..." (4'07")
8. "He had pyrethrum powder..." (2'03")
9. "Bill's landlady, Mrs. Murphy..." (2'17")
10. "In Chicago..." (3'47")
11. "Burroughs got on well with Mrs. Murphy.." (3'00")
12. "Shortly after this, Kammerer persuaded Lucien to go on a trip with him..." (1'48")
13. "Book Two: The Beat Generation..." (2'41")
14. "Kammerer found himself a studio apartment..." (3'05")
15. "Burroughs quickly settled into something of a routine..." (3'41")
16. "Two: Derangement of all the senses..." (3'21")
17. "Burroughs described her as 'pretty, but...'" (2'34")
18. "It was difficult to get an abortion in those days..." (2'48")
19. "A few days before Christmas 1943..." (2'08")
20. "A few days after Christmas, they made another trip to see Kammerer..." (2'47")
21. "Looking back, Lucien Carr considered..." (2'34")
22. "Jack flunked out with a leg injury..." (2'40")
23. "Allen Ginsberg, meanwhile, had also met Kerouac..."(2'52")
24. "Although this young, middle class group of graduates..." (1'49")
25. "Chapter Ten..." (2'26")
26. "Edie describes a small, but telling incident..." (1'53")
27. "Two: A Death in the family..." (3'00")

Disc 5 (pages 109-135): 

1. "Bill didn't fully believe him..." (2'17")
2. "There was no body..." (3'52")
3. "Jack had to borrow a hundred dollars from Edie's mother..." (3'17")
4. "Judge Donellen sentenced Lucien..." (2'18")
5. "Chapter Eleven..." (2'51")
6. "Burroughs was resistant to hypnosis..." (2'06")
7. "Burroughs had given up his Greenwich Village apartment..." (2'39")
8. "in order to prove to himself that his art was not being produced for any commercial or practical use..." (2'15")
9. "Two: An alternative education..." (3'47")
10. "Throughout his life, Burroughs tried dozens of forms of self-improvement..." (3'18")
11. "Jack had been working on a text based on the Kammerer killing..." (3'16")
12. "Bill's apartment was above Reardon's Cafe..." (2'31")
13. "Three: Junk..." (2'31")
14. "'Good evening,' said Bill politely..." (4'09")
15. "Phil White came over a few days after their first meeting..." (3'47")
16. "Burroughs described him..." (3'34")
17. "She took them through to the sitting room..." (2'38")
18. "Chapter Twelve..." (3'19")
19. "Allen Ginsberg, meanwhile, had been having a difficult time..." (2'01")
20. "Allen suspected that the Irish woman who cleaned his room..." (2'21")
21. "Jack and Allen got it into their heads that Burroughs should meet Joan Vollmer..." (2'36")
22. "Then in February, the federal government..." (2'04")
23. "Joan and Julie had one room..." (2'49")
24. "Kerouac's notebooks were filled with drawings of crucifixes..." (1'44")
25. "Two: The Wolfeans..." (2'50")
26. "That night became a reference point between them for many years..." (2'59")

Disc 6 (pages 135-163): 

1. "Ginsberg, however, felt that the analysis was something of a success..." (3'07")
2. "It was inevitable that the other residents of 115th Street would..." (3'32")
3. "Joan and Bill spent hours in Joan's room..." (3'45")
4. "After his father died, Kerouac turned up at 115th Street..." (2'11")
5. "Meanwhile, Bill's addiction had reached the stage..." (3'47")
6. "The partnership did not last long..." (2'22")
7. "Garver had a $10 a week room..." (2'52")
8. "He went straight to the US narcotic farm in Lexington, Kentucky..." (3'09")
9. "Huncke introduced Joan to a friend of his..." (2'50")
10. "Book Three: Down Mexico Way..." (3'52")
11. "Kells father, Pollite, owned property in the Rio Grande..." (2'23")
12. "Kells' land was in Hidalgo County..." (2'22")
13. "they all did very well out of it..." (2'29")
14. "Cotton-picking began on July 4th..." (2'39")
15. "During the day, Bill and Kells drove around inspecting the land..." (3'34")
16. "Kells was a member of the McAllan Country Club..." (3'51")
17. "'Young friend of mine, name of Terry...'" (2'49")
18. "Early in October 1946..." (2'16")
19. "Chapter Fourteen..." (2'59")
20. "This ability apparently ran in families..." (3'11")
21. "The idea of Huncke..." (3'30")
22. "Judging by his letters to Ginsberg..." (2'20")
23. "Bill never paid much heed to it..." (2'51")
24. "After Joan left Bellevue..." (3'00")
25. "On hearing of the birth of Billy Burroughs Jr..." (3'09")

Disc 7 (pages 163-189): 

1. "Allen's physical demands of Neal..." (2'12")
2. "Two: Texas justice..." (3'51")
3. "On April 27th, 1948..." (4'09")
4. "Chapter Fifteen..." (3'57")
5. "Inevitably, soon after he moved to New Orleans..." (2'11")
6. "Around the new year of 1949..." (1'57")
7. "Helen booked herself into a hotel..." (3'18")
8. "Joan never slept..." (3'35")
9. "Kerouac, in On the Road, recalled..." (2'21")
10. "Bill and Allen had been engaged in a lively correspondence..." (2'21")
11. "When Joan did finally go to sleep..." (2'39")
12. "Three days after Bill's arrest..." (1'48")
13. "Bill often compared Joan with his mother..." (3'19")
14. "Chapter Sixteen..." (3'33")
15. "Bill ordered sheet metal, wood, and a roll of rock wool..." (3'00")
16. "At first Bill housed his family in a dilapidated motel..." (2'41")
17. "Bill enjoyed being with his best friend Kells..." (2'58")
18. "Chapter Seventeen..." (2'15")
19. "Mexico City had an inescapable physical impact..." (2'05")
20. "Bill and Joan looked around the university quarter..." (2'17")
21. "Joan adjusted to the new situation..." (1'58")
22. "Inevitably, Bill's early impressions were rose-tinted..." (2'18")
23. "Bernabe Jurado had his office..." (2'59")
24. "On November 21, 1949..." (2'03")
25. "Two: Back on junk..." (3'51")
26. "Then one of the doctors suggested..." (3'33")

Disc 8 (pages 190-216): 

1. "That summer, the On the Road gang..." (4'15")
2. "Three: The Mexican dream..." (3'27")
3. "During the course of the cure..." (4'07")
4. "Bill's favorite bar at that time..." (2'12")
5. "The Bounty, and the apartments above..." (2'30")
6. "During the month he was drunk all the time..." (2'35")
7. "Bill's conviction that Mexicans believed..." (3'13")
8. "Lewis Adelberg Marker..." (3'14") 
9. "Four: In search of Yagé..." (4'03")
10. "Burroughs and Marker continued their trip..." (2'39")
11. "The name Puyo means 'cloudy'..." (4'03")
12. "While Burroughs sought Yagé..." (2'20")
13. "They came to a river, where the bridge was washed out..." (3'24")
14. "Chapter Eighteen..." (2'47")
15. "The stories that Bill had arranged to meet Bob Addison..." (3'28")
16. "Burroughs had arrived at Healy's..." (3'59")
17. "Marker got to her first..." (2'49")
18. "While Burroughs was being interviewed..." (2'58")
19. "Late that night, with the aid of Bernabe Jurado..." (2'37")
20. "He was questioned first..." (2'28")
21. "In the event, Burroughs spent only two weeks..." (3'59")
22. "From his room in the Reforma Hotel..." (3'29")
23. "There has been much comment and speculation..." (2'53")

Disc 9 (pages 216-242): 

1. "The 'Ugly Spirit' idea..." (2'11")
2. "Though it in no way redeems Burroughs' culpability..." (2'48")
3. "Chapter Nineteen..." (3'05")
4. "In March 1952, Bill told Allen..." (3'59")
5. "Jack Kerouac arrived at the end of April..." (2'02")
6. "In May, Bill and Jack went on a weekend trip..." (3'14")
7. "Kerouac did what he usually did..." (2'46")
8. "Early in July, Bill Garver..." (3'48")
9. "Fourteen months had passed since Joan's death..." (3'41")
10. "Chapter Twenty..." (3'25")
11. "The Hotel Colón in Panama..." (3'11")
12. "Things improved the next day when he met Dr. Richard Evans Schulte..." (3'21")
13. "Burroughs liked Cali..." (2'16")
14. "Burroughs arrived in Mocoa late at night..." (3'56")
15. "Burroughs spent about a week on Puerto Limón..." (3'42")
16. "By February 28th, he had reached..." (3'59")
17. "The expedition continued next day to Puerto Asís..." (4'10")
18. "Two: Into Peru..." (3'09")
19. "In his little storefront apartment..." (2'59")
20. "The six-week trip to Pucallpa..." (3'44")
21. "He added, that it occurred to him..." (3'40")
22. "Chapter Twenty-One..." (2'46")
23. "Allen Ginsberg was living at apartment sixteen..." (2'49")

Disc 10 (pages 242-267): 

1. "By the end of the forties, the bar scene had moved..." (2'53")
2. "Ginsberg was interested in Ansen because..." (2'11")
3. "Bill had originally intended to spend a month in New York..." (2'56")
4. "Allen's role as the receiver..." (2'39")
5. "It was not a question of one partner dominating the other..." (3'57")
6. "Ginsberg later said, 'It wounded him terribly...'" (2'31")
7. "Burroughs left for Rome..." (2'38")
8. "Book Four: The Classic Stations of the Earth..." (3'43")
9. "Tangier had a population of 180,000..." (3'27")
10. "A week after arriving, he attended an art opening of paintings by Brion Gysin..." (1'50")
11. "The room was in Anthony 'Tony Dutch' Reithorst's male brothel..." (2'28")
12. "One of the first people Burroughs met in Tangier..." (2'51")
13. "He lay still for a moment on top of the other boy..." (1'52")
14. "Two: Bar la Mar Chica..." (2'18")
15. "The Parade Bar..." (2'44")
16. "The view from Tangier across the strait..." (3'02")
17. "Bill discovered Eukodol days after arriving in Tangier..." (3'30")
18. "Chapter Twenty-Three..." (3'27")
19. "Gifford was a public-school boy..." (3'02")
20. "Bill had quickly found drugs, boys, and drinking companions..." (2'13")
21. "After visiting Uxmal..." (3'20")
22. "Two: Kells in Morocco..." (3'26")
23. "What Burroughs was looking for in a sexual partner..." (2'51")
24. "He was so pleased with his description..." (3'33")
25. "Decades later, Burroughs revised his memory of those years..." (3'20")

Disc 11 (pages 268-293): 

1. "Chapter Twenty-Four..." (2'40")
2. "Although it pained him to do it..." (2'15")
3. "As soon as he had recovered enough to travel..." (2'30")
4. "Two: The Socco Chico Set..." (2'47")
5. "This gave Burroughs access to Paul Bowles' library..." (1'57")
6. "David Wolman dubbed its denizens..." (2'14")
7. "Bill found Paul Lund..." (2'11")
8. "Three: The Talking Asshole..." (3'24")
9. "By May 11th, he was able to write to Allen..." (2'10")
10. "More sections of The Naked Lunch emerged..." (3'06")
    
11. "Bill now recognized the significant role Tangier played..." (3'38")
12. "In the same letter, he described a new routine..." (2'08")
13. "Four: Remittance Men at Large..." (2'19")
14. "It was Ansen who first met Charles Gallagher..." (2'21")
15. "In May, Bill tried yet again to kick junk..." (2'26")
16. "Things got so bad with Bill's addiction..." (3'45")
17. "In the summer of 1955..." (2'47")
18. "Burroughs demonstrated considerable sangfroid..." (2'34")
19. "Chapter Twenty-Five..." (3'35")
20. "The withdrawal from opiates meant that he was unable to sleep..." (2'37")
21. "'Remember when you first tried to row a Gondola...'" (1'51")
22. "They established a regular routine..." (2'20")
23. "The Suez Canal had been nationalized..." (2'47")
24. "Two: Villa Delirium..." (3'10")
25. "Bill led a very healthy life..." (3'20")
26. "Now that he was clean..." (2'58")
27. "In the spring of 1953..." (1'48")
28. "Burroughs, however, played a different, more difficult game..." (3'32")

Disc 12 (pages 293-318):

1. "Homosexuality is forbidden in Islamic law..." (3'26")
2. "Three: The Jihad Jitters..." (2'21")
3. "The Sargasso was Bill's name..." (2'23")
4. "The Istiqlal Moroccan Independence Party..." (3'10")
5. "but invisibility was the intention..." (3'08")
6. "Chapter Twenty-Six..." (3'34")
7. "Bill appears to have extended this theory..." (2'47")
8. "This appears to have been the high point of Burroughs' writing career..." (2'53")
9. "Two: Interzone..." (2'54")
10. "At 4 p.m., Bill would reach for the fumador..." (3'17")
11. "Bill questioned Jack about Peter Orlovsky..." (1'59")
12. "Bill and Jack were waiting, waving..." (2'26")
13. "During the day, Peter and Allen would sometimes stand in the garden..." (2'17")
14. "Allen and Peter immediately moved from the hotel..." (2'20")
15. "'Allen did a lot of typing...'" (1'53")
16. "Allen, of course, tried to mediate between Bill and Peter..." (2'46")
17. "Paul Bowles had been in Ceylon..." (2'14")
18. "The work on Bill's book progressed..." (1'49")
19. "Chapter Twenty-Seven..." (3'39")
20. "After spending three weeks in the Danish capital..." (4'00")
21. "Bill's two months away had broken the spell of Tangier..." (2'06")
22. "By November 10th..." (2'52")
23. "Book Five: The City of Light..." (3'11")
24. "He had changed the novel..." (3'12")
25. "Easily visible from Madame's position..." (2'24")
26. "Bill's room was not much bigger..." (2'19")

Disc 13 (pages 318-344): 

1. "Two: A friendship renewed..." (2'56")
2. "Burroughs had in his own way come to a similar understanding..." (2'52")
3. "Despite all this, Burroughs recognized..." (4'02")
4. "As his room was so small..." (3'06")
5. "That March, the New York critic and novelist..." (3'24")
6. "BJ's best friend was Baird Bryant..." (3'07")
7. "Three: Librarie Anglaise and the Mistral..." (2'35")
8. "Although very much smaller..." (1'53")
9. "In the medieval barrel vaulted cave..." (1'46")
10. "It is an indication of how well-known Burroughs became..." (2'25")
11. "Jean-Jacques Lebel was delighted..." (2'58")
12. "Chapter Twenty-Nine..." (3'39")
13. "Bill attended a number of dinner parties..." (3'09")
14. "Problems arose between them..." (4'00")
15. "Two: Louis-Ferdinand Céline..." (4'00")
16. "They spoke about having a 'mother tongue'..." (3'59")
17. "On June 26th..." (2'55")
18. "Bill told Allen..." (2'24")
19. "That August, before his trip to London with Stern..." (2'32")
20. "Chapter Thirty..." (3'44")
21. "Although Burroughs did not know Brion very well in Tangier..." (3'23")
22. "Burroughs began to spend much of his free time in room 25..." (3'55")
23. "Two: Psychic Discoveries..." (3'24")
24. "Another time, sitting across the room from Jacques Stern..." (2'11")

Disc 14 (pages 344-371): 

1. "Every night Bill and assorted residents went to Brion's room..." (3'07")
2. "In February 1959, Brion had an appendectomy..." (3'15")
3. "Bill took the packet boat to Marseille with Alan Ansen..." (2'08")
4. "Alan Ansen returned to Venice..." (2'18")
5. "Stern was a complete fantasist..." (2'31")
6. "Chapter Thirty-One..." (3'36")
7. "Rosenthal resolved to publish the offending issue himself..." (2'18")
8. "On May 30th, the Nation ran an article on the case..." (2'14")
9. "When the galleys came back from the printer..." (2'51")
10. "Burroughs classical education played..." (3'28")
11. "The political parodies in the book..." (3'32")
12. "Two: Busted..." (2'17")
13. "At the actual hearing, before three judges..." (2'17")
14. "Burroughs found Maurice Girodias very likable... (2'30")
15. "Three: Ian Sommerville..." (3'42")
16. "It was a terrifying and traumatic experience..." (2'59")
17. "Off junk, Bill now began..." (3'18")
18. "Chapter Thirty-Two..." (2'29")
19. "After several days they were drugged once more..." (2'01")
20. "Two: Cut-Ups..." (2'57")
21. "Slicing lines of text from articles..." (2'32")
22. "Sinclair Beiles took the opposite path..." (1'52")
23. "Even before Minutes to Go was published..." (2'11")
24. "The final form of The Exterminator..." (2'47")
25. "Book Six: London Town..." (3'18")
26. "Bill already knew a few people..." (3'51")

Disc 15 (pages 371-397): 

1. "Another person often to be found in Bill's room..." (3'50")
2. "Evans liked to party..." (3'02")
3. "Nearer to the Empress..." (3'25")
4. "The Beat Hotel experiments continued..." (3'11")
5. "At the beginning of August 1960..." (2'18")
6. "Brion wrote to Sommerville, asking if it would be possible..." (2'27")
7. "Two: Mikey Portman..." (2'53")
8. "Bill was interested in this entre.." (2'54")
9. "Burroughs of course did not know any of this..." (2'33")
10. "That October, Bill ran up short of money..." (3'05")
11. "Three: L'homme invisible..." (3'30")
12. "If the American actor and writer John Gilmore..." (3'06")
13. "Chapter Thirty-Four..." (3'10")
14. "Ginsberg, ever-loyal..." (2'47")
15. "The Soft Machine is the most intensely cut-up..." (2'07")
16. "Two: Word Falling..." (2'45")
17. "Although he was unaware of it..." (2'02")
18. "In his experiments, Burroughs always investigated..." (2'34")
19. "Three: Paul Bowles..." (2'59")
20. "According to Burroughs, Bowles himself had a hidden violent side..." (2'52")
21. "Burroughs took DMT about ten times..." (2'18")
22. "Chapter Thirty-Five..." (3'08")
23. "Though Bill was claiming to be immune from attachments..." (3'53")
24. "I didn't want to do it..." (2'35")
25. "At the recommendation of Allen Ginsberg..." (2'11")
26. "The session began in Bill's room..." (2'20")
27. "Leary was perplexed by the casual cruelty..." (2'12")

Disc 16 (pages 397-423): 

1. "Two: An American Interlude..." (2'47")
2. "After the conference, Bill returned to Cambridge with Leary..." (2'10")
3. "From the moment that he saw Leary's setup..." (1'57")
4. "Open letter to my constituents..." (2'34")
5. "Three: New York..." (2'44")
6. "Chapter Thirty-Six..." (3'25")
7. "In the late spring of 1962..." (3'22")
8. "He was particularly incensed by Trocchi..." (3'07")
9. "Relations between Ian and Mikey..." (3'21")
10. "Two: The Ticket That Exploded..." (2'18")
11. "He said he expected the book to be out..." (2'49")
12. "Maurice Girodias, as usual..." (3'47")
13. "Through Mikey, Bill..." (2'05")
14. "Robert Frazer had left Eaton..." (3'22")
15. "Further footage was shot in Paris..." (2'57")
16. "'You should see what I've done with your work, Mr. Beckett...'" (2'17")
17. "Chapter Thirty-Seven..." (3'14")
18. "Another reason for finding a house..." (3'58")
19. "The contrast between his grandparents' house..." (1'54")
20. "Ian took Billy to the Dancing Boy Cafe..." (2'59")
21. "Sometimes Billy could behave in a difficult, typically adolescent manner..." (2'58")
22. "Two: Living in the Marshan..." (3'15")
23. "The problems at 4, calle Larachi..." (2'46")
24. "Three: Cut-Ups, Columns, and Grids..." (2'53")
25. "Another form of text presentation..." (1'52")
26. "Four: Television with Dan Farson..." (2'14")

Disc 17 (pages 423-452): 

1. "Burroughs was pleased to see Trocchi again..." (3'49")
2. "Burroughs used his Tangier air ticket..." (2'01")
3. "Five: The Loteria Building..." (3'31")
4. "Bill and Ian were finally free from harassment..." (4'01")
5. "Six: Return to Villa Delerium..." (1'52")
6. "The summer of 1964..." (2'37")
7. "Ian returned to London at the beginning of October..." (2'28")
8. "Book Seven: Burlington Billy..." (2'26")
9. "Bill visited Allen on East 5th Street..." (2'15")
10. "Burroughs made contact with poet Ted Berrigan..." (3'23")
11. "On his arrival in St. Louis..." (4'18")
12. "In New York, one of the main performance places..." (3'47")
13. "Two: Onset..." (3'09")
14. "Pleased with the publication of Roosevelt after Inauguration..." (2'48")
15. "Present at most of these events was Panna Grady..." (2'50")
16. "Despite their best efforts..." (3'36")
17. "Chapter Thirty-Nine..." (3'42")
18. "Ian Sommerville moved in with him..." (2'59")
19. "In December, Bill's three-month entry permit expired..." (2'16")
20. "Two: Chappaqua Continues..." (3'37")
21. "In London, Bill continued with the three-column experiments..." (3'09")
22. "The Cut Ups opened at the Cinephone..." (2'14")
23. "Three: Montagu Square..." (2'25")
24. "Ian and Alan quickly moved into Ringo's rock star apartment..." (2'33")

Disc 18 (pages 452-479): 

1. "Four: Groovy Bob..." (3'36")
2. "Bill was earning very good money..." (2'28")
3. "Chapter Forty..." (3'53")
4. "After a few days at the Three Pelicans Hotel..." (2'55")
5. "Bill never liked to be around effeminate gays..." (2'08")
6. "While Burroughs was in Tangier..." (3'24")
7. "Through December 1966..." (2'26")
8. "The 'Gran Luxe' section of the book..." (1'53")
9. "Bill liked Marrakech..." (2'44")
10. "Two: Palm Beach and Lexington..." (2'19")
11. "Bill accompanied Billy Jr. to Lexington..." (1'57")
12. "Late in the summer of 1966..." (3'00")
13. "That summer Allen Ginsberg came to London..." (2'40")
14. "Chapter Forty-One..." (3'12")
15. "There were to be twenty-one bulletins..." (3'02")
16. "L. Ron Hubbard claimed..." (2'17")
17. "Between late January and April 1968..." (3'36")
18. "That was clear..." (2'35")
19. "'This is the compulsive re-experiencing of emotions...'" (2'01")
20. "In the primordial past..." (3'18")
21. "After Robert Fraser went to jail..." (3'20")
22. "While Burroughs was completing his Scientology clearing course..." (3'42")
23. "John Berendt from Esquire wanted..." (2'08")
24. "Chapter Forty-Two..." (2'24")
25. "After another early night..." (3'37")
26. "The next day, Wednesday, Chicago was..." (3'33")
27. "It was at the Delmonico that Burroughs saw Jack Kerouac..." (3'22")

Disc 19 (pages 479-503): 

1. "Two: Back in Blighty..." (3'39")
2. "On August 17th, after a flurry of intensive work..." (2'55")
3. "Burroughs had originally planned a book called Academy 23..." (2'08")
4. "'The last frontier is being closed to youth...'" (2'32")
5. "For one year, Burroughs even exempted himself..." (2'45")
6. "By now Bill had found a safe way of using pot..." (2'49")
7. "Chapter Forty-Three..." (2'27")
   
8. "Bill's mother, Laura Lee Burroughs, died..." (3'02")
9. "On February 14, 1970..." (3'38")
10. "Two: The Rolling Stones..." (3'22")
11. "Nonetheless, Bill responded when Hollywood expressed an interest..." (2'57")
12. "Bill also attended their farewell party..." (2'55")
13. "Though he eschewed the celebrity end of the London scene..." (4'05")
14. "Burroughs was invited to teach a course..." (3'02")
15. "Burroughs' fascination with Scientology continued..." (3'08")
16. "Burroughs used one of his new weapons..." (2'35")
17. "In April 1972, Burroughs..." (2'20")
18. "He dipped into the New York social scene..." (2'20")
19. "Chapter Forty-Four..." (2'31")
20. "In the early days of their relationship..." (4'06")
21. "Though he was a late addition to the pantheon..." (1'57")
22. "On September 6, 1972..." (3'23")
23. "Before the archive was sold..." (4'08")
24. "Disappointed by the collapse of the archive study center scheme..." (1'48")

Disc 20 (pages 503-531): 

1. "With the archive dealt with..." (3'20")
2. "This is a typical example of how Burroughs processed..." (2'05")
3. "When Allen Ginsberg visited London..." (2'12")
4. "Book Eight: The Prodigal Son Returns..." (3'18")
5. "In May 1973..." (3'18")
6. "However, a few days later he did.." (3'43")
7. "James says that shortly after they met..." (3'48")
8. "Burroughs' tenure at City College..." (2'14")
9. "He was already experienced at public performance..." (2'20")
10. "Another visitor for Bill that April 1974..." (3'28")
11. "When Bill moved to the loft..." (3'36")
12. "Another source of income was a regular column in Crawdaddy..." (4'10")
13. "Burroughs did teach again..." (3'15")
14. "Burroughs said that he was more concerned with writing than..." (2'26")
15. "Two: Ian's Death..." (2'27")
16. "Five days later he gave a reading with Allen Ginsberg..." (2'13")
17. "Chapter Forty-Six..." (2'33")
18. "1976 was the year of Billy's illness..." (2'48")
19. "The first five days after a transplant..." (2'38")
20. "Two: The Bunker..." (4'12")
21. "Three: Junky..." (3'52")
22. "Chapter Forty-Seven..." (2'35")
23. "That summer Burroughs began teaching a screenwriting course..." (1'43")
24. "According to Burroughs, Cabell..." (4'05")

Disc 21 (pages 532-558): 

1. "Two or three times a week, Cabell and Poppy..." (4'02")
2. "One of Billy's many problems..." (3'38")
3. "Two: Horror Hospital..." (2'26")
4. "It was obvious that Antony's position was hopeless..." (2'15")
5. "Bill had been in Europe initially..." (2'56")
6. "Three: Nova Convention..." (2'32")
7. "It was doubly important for Gysin to be present..." (1'59")
8. "The Nova Convention ran from..." (2'08")
9. "Robert Palmer, reviewing her performance..." (2'20")
10. "Four: Cities of the Red Night..." (2'29")
11. "That summer, after five years of work..." (3'21")
12. "In 1980, when Burroughs felt that he had enough material..." (3'48")
13. "1979 was another busy year for Burroughs..." (3'55")
14. "Burroughs spent the summer in Boulder teaching..." (3'49")
15. "Chapter Forty-Eight..." (3'29")
16. "Burroughs was then spending a lot of time with Stu Meyer..." (2'31")
17. "'When he came in the door...'" (2'28")
18. "A roll call of Beat Generation and downtown luminaries..." (3'16")
19. "Two: Heroin..." (3'29")
20. "Bill needed three bags a day, minimum..." (4'49")
21. "Three: We Must Hold the Bunker at All Costs..." (4'04")
22. "Allen was one of Bills' frequent visitors..." (2'47")
23. "In the mornings Bill would seat himself at his desk..." (3'28")
24. "There were six hundred pages of material left over..." (4'05")

Disc 22 (pages 558-587): 

1. "The cause of death was given as a heart attack..." (4'02")
2. "Book Nine: Return to Roots..." (2'50")
3. "Lawrence is a small university town..." (2'52")
4. "Burroughs wanted a place where he could shoot..." (2'05")
5. "Bill dropped into a ready-made social scene..." (1'50")
6. "Burroughs met Bill Rich..." (2'46")
7. "Throughout the winter of 1981 to 1982..." (3'11")
8. "Burroughs was very attached to draft five..." (2'27")
9. "Two: Painting with Guns..." (3'15")
10. "Burroughs had been engaged in making visual art..." (2'29")
11. "During the shooting stage of Burroughs' art..." (2'36")
12. "In 1982, the Nova Convention..." (1'55")
13. "On February 27, 1983..." (2'33")
14. "His brother's death set him thinking..." (3'07")
15. "Chapter Fifty..." (3'24")
16. "As he was now living in the Lawrence city limits..." (3'25")
17. "Then things began to settle down..." (4'22")
18. "That summer at Naropa..." (3'47")
19. "There were further accolades when Burroughs turned seventy..." (3'46")
20. "Wylie had just secured a six-book deal..." (1'57")
21. "Burroughs told a local Boulder paper..." (2'48")
22. "For the previous two years..." (3'34")
23. "Two: Brion..." (1'59")
24. "Burroughs said that the book used cats..." (2'27")
25. "Brion's health worsened..." (3'08")
26. "Burroughs always said that Brion showed him how to live..." (3'18")

Disc 23 (pages 587-612): 

1. "Brion could discourse at length..." (3'49")
2. "Bill and John gave extremely successful readings..." (3'41")
3. "Brion's death preoccupied Burroughs..." (3'13")
4. "Burroughs, in the book..." (3'32")
5. "'If on the other hand the Western Lands are reached...'" (3'35")
6. "Throughout the book, people and places from his past..." (3'41")
7. "Chapter Fifty-One..." (4'02")
8. "Burroughs had no formal art training..." (3'39")
9. "Burroughs began painting..." (2'32")
10. "Although there was no direct influence..." (1'44")
11. "Many of the early paintings were executed in india ink..." (2'49")
12. "Burroughs also continued his film career..." (1'43")
13. "After that, he made an album..." (2'19")
14. "Two: Last Boy..." (3'06")
15. "The next day at Allen's..." (2'42")
16. "Three: Opera..." (2'59")
17. "Burroughs wrote the libretto..." (3'54")
18. "Four: Folders..." (2'49")
19. "Many of Burroughs' shows were organized by José Férez Kuri..." (2'16")
20. "Five: Aliens..." (2'07")
21. "Burroughs was a little upset that the aliens made no attempt to contact him..." (2'48")
22. "Chapter Fifty-Two..." (3'06")
23. "Burroughs was now very settled in his ways..." (2'38")
24. "Bill had a large library of pulp fiction..." (3'48")

Disc 24 (pages 612-635): 

1. "Bill retired early..." (2'59")
2. "His interest in guns attracted other 'gun guys'..." (3'06")
3. "Allen Ginsberg often came to stay..." (3'00")
4. "Over the years, Burroughs had accumulated a lot of possessions..." (3'28")
5. "Burroughs appreciated these friends, who had become his family..." (2'27")
6. "Burroughs had been experiencing tiredness and chest pains..." (3'18")
7. "On Thursday, September 17th..." (2'14")
8. "My Education, published in 1995..." (2'57")
9. "Two: Kurt Cobain..." (2'37")
10. "Cobain's wish to meet Burroughs was granted..." (2'01")
11. "Burroughs had worked with musicians before..." (2'59")
12. "He was not opposed to advertising..." (2'26")
13. "Then in July came Ports of Entry..." (1'54")
14. "Three: I Had Not Thought Death Had Undone So Many..." (2'06")
15. "Allen's death was reported across the world..." (2'31")
16. "On July 29, 2997..." (3'38")
17. "The nurse pointed to the jagged pattern on the EKG screen..." (2'10")
18. "Ira Silverberg, who had remained in close contact..." (3'43")
19. "The thing that upset the close family the most..." (4'07")
20. "End Words..." (2'00")
21. "Burroughs was aware that writers can have an image problem..." (3'30")
22. "Paul McCartney was sufficiently impressed..." (4'04")
23. "Although he was very much in the American tradition..." (3'01")
24. "The role of drugs in Burroughs' life..." (1'51")
25. "Burroughs did not have a happy life..." (3'37")
26. "Since his death, interest in Burroughs' work has greatly increased..." (3'19")