Sylvère Lotringer's "Burroughs Live 1960-1997" (2001)

New York City and Los Angeles, California, US: Semiotext(e) (book, interview, compilation), 2001.
9" x 6" x 1.5", 847 pages, softcover, ISBN 1-58435-010-5.

Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs 1960-1997, a compilation of interviews with William S. Burroughs, edited by Sylvère Lotringer ans published in a first softcover edition by Semiotext(e) (New York City and Los Angeles) in 2001. No hardcover edition was published. Cover photo is by Maarten Corbyn. Design by Hedi El Kholti and Tim Koh. This contains ninety-nine interviews spanning 1960, the year following the publication of The Naked Lunch, to 1997, the year Burroughs died. A decent index ends this book.

The copy shown is my reference copy.

Shoaf II.439. Schottlaender v4.H7.

Contents:

• Foreword by Sylvère Lotringer
• "On Editing this Book" by Sylvère Lotringer
• By Way of an Introduction:
• 1. Allen Ginsberg and Charles Ruas: "In Search of Yagé" [previously unpublished]
• Expatriate: 
• 2. William Burroughs: "The Beginning Is Also the End" [from Transatlantic Review, Autumn 1963]
• 3. William Burroughs: "Came from Nowhere" [from Mademoiselle, January 1960]
• 4. Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso: "The Time-Birth-Death Gimmick" [from Journal for the Protection of All Beings, 1961]
• 5. Joseph Barry: "Burroughs After Lunch" [from New York Post, Sunday Magazine, 10 March 1963]
  
• 6. W. J. Weatherby: "Dressed for Tea" [from The Guardian, 22 March 1963]
• 7. Eric Mottram: "The Algebra of Need" [published in the Aloes Press chapbook Snack]
• 8. Conrad Knickerbocker: "White Junk" [from Paris Review, Fall 1965]
• 9. SF Horizons: "The Hallucinatory Operators Are Real" [from SF Horizons, Winter 1965]
• London (1966-1974):
• 10. Jaguar: "Prophet or Pornographer?" [from Jaguar, January 1966]
• 11. Jeff Shiro: "Revolt!" [from Rat, 4 October 1968 and Rat, 18 October 1968]
• 12. Felix Scorpio: "Tactics of Deconditioning" [from International Times, 23 May 1969]
• 13. Allen Ginsberg: "Spiritual Conspiracies" [previously unpublished]
• 14. Jean-François Bizot: "Establishment Garbage" [from Actuel, November 1970]
• 15. Playboy Panel on the Drug Revolution [from Playboy, February 1970]
• 16. Dan Georgakas: "Rapping on Revolutionary Techniques" [from Global Tapestry Journal, 1971]
• 17. AM and PA: "Inspector J. Lee of the Nova Police" [from Friends, 14 April 1970]
• 18. Bob Palmer: "Rolling Stone Interview" [from Rolling Stone, 11 May 1972]
• 19. Lawrence Collinson and Roger Baker: "Gay Liberation" [from Gay Sunshine, Spring 1974]
• 20. Eric Mottram: "Snack..." [published in the Aloes Press chapbook Snack]
• 21. Craig Copetas: "William Burroughs/Bowie: Beat Godfather..." [from Rolling Stone, 28 February 1974]
• 22. Pierre Dommergues: "Recipes for a Liberation" [from Le Monde, 18 January 1974]
• 23. John Tytell: "Interrogation" [published in Naked Angels]
• 24: George McFadden and Robert Mayoh: "Death Isn't Necessarily Final" [from The Anchor, 19 April 1974]
• 25. Philippe Mikriammos: "The Last European Interview" [published in the Editions Seghers book William Burroughs]
• New York (1974-81):
• 26. Josh Feigenbaum: "The Invisible Man Returns" [from The Soho Weekly News, 25 July 1974]
• 27. Gerard Malanga: "Memory Traces" [published in The Beat Book]
• 28. Charles Ruas: "The Last Words of Dutch Schultz" [radio interview, previously unpublished]
• 29. David Moberg and Allen Ginsberg: "Sympathetic Magic" [previously unpublished, from typescript]
• 30. Geneva Colloquium: "The Doomsday Bug" [from Kontexts, 1976]
• 31. Angelo Lewis: "The White Threat" [from Rocky Mountain Music Express, January 1978]
• 32. Semiotext(e): "Schizo-Culture" [previously unpublished]
• 33. "The Struggle Against Censorship" [radio interview, previously unpublished]
• 34. Paul Getty III: "Wanting to Be Something Else" [from Interview, May 1976]
• 35. John Giorno: "Almost Miss America" [published in Gay Sunshine Interviews]
• 36: Victor Bockris: "Isherwood Meets Burroughs" [from Interview, February 1977]
• 37. Tennessee Williams: "Orpheus Holds His Own" [from The Village Voice, 16 May 1977]
• 38. Laurel Delp: "Inside the Burroughs Bunker" [from The Soho Weekly News, 24 March 1977]
• 39. Jürgen Ploog: "Helplessness Has Taken Over" [from Sounds, [date?] 1977]
• 40. Raymond Foye: "Call Me... Burroughs" [from Search and Destroy, 1978]
• 41. Georges-Gérard [sic, Gérard-Georges] Lemaire: "Terrorism, Utopia and Fiction" [from Le Matin, 3 July 1978]
• 42. Georges-Gérard [sic, Gérard-Georges] Lemaire: "In the Labyrinths of the Mind" [from Le Matin, 4 July 1978]
• 43. Victor Bockris, Nicholas Roeg, and Peter Beard: "Naked Brunch" [from The Soho Weekly News, 30 March 1978]
• 44. Kev and Tony Jackson: "Ethiopium" [from Ethiopium, July 1978]
• 45. Richard Goldstein: "The Nova Convention"
• 46. Richard Goldstein: "The Beat Goes On" [from Rolling Stone College Papers, Fall 1979]
• 47. Victor Bockris: "All Writers Lose Contact" [from High Times, February 1979]
• 48. William Burroughs: "When Patti Rocked" [from Spin, April 1988]
• 49. Robin Adams, Edward Bass, and James D. Hayes: "Viral Theory" [published in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse]
• 50. Allen Ginsberg: "Time Jumps Like a Broken Typewriter" [previously unpublished in full, from typescript. Part was used as a postface to The Soft Machine (Grove Press)]
• 51. Edmund White: "The Inner Burroughs" [from Soho News, 18 February 1981]
• 52. Victor Bockris, Debbie Harry, and Chris Stein: "Dinner with Blondie" [from New Music News, 24 May 1981]
• 53. Michael White: "Astral Evolution" [previously unpublished]
• 54. Bill X: "Table Tapping, My Dear" [from Talk Talk, 1981]
• 55. The Bloomsbury Review: "Living in Words" [from The Bloomsbury Review, February 1981]
• 56. Jerry Bauer: "Trip to Hell and Back" [from TRAX, 18 March 1981]
• 57. Regina Weinreich: "Women Are a Biological Mistake" [from OMNI, October 1981]
• 58. Arthur Shingles: "Mutation, Utopia and Magic" [from Undercurrents, November 1981]
• 59. Allen Ginsberg: "Having to Put Out" [from the Daily Camera, [date?] 1981]
• 60. Nina Zivancevic: "Life in Space" [previously unpublished]
• 61. Sylvère Lotringer: "Exterminating" [published in Semiotext(e), "The German Issue", 1982]
• 62. Jerry Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh: "Devo Meets Burroughs" [from Trouser Press, February 1982]
• 63. Vale: "Under Psychic Attack" (from Re/Search, issue 4/5, 1982]
• Lawrence, Kansas (1982-97):
• 64. Duncan Fallowell: "Fast Frames, Slow Draw" [from Time Out, 24 September 1982]
• 65. Chris Bohn: "Bill and Brion" [from New Musical Express, 16 October 1982]
• 66. Alan Bold, Mick Brown, and Andy Darlington: "No Future" [combined interview, published in multiple original sources]
• 67. Nicholas Zurbrugg: "The Devil's Bargain" [from Art & Text, Summer 1980]
• 68. Jay Murphy: "Nothing Is Inevitable Before It Happens" [from Red Bass, [maybe issue 11?] 1983]
• 69. Nicholas Zurbrugg: "Any Writing Is Experimental" [previously unpublished]
• 70. T. X. Erbe: "Still Get a Thrill When I See You" [from The East Village Eye, April 1984]
• 71. Tom H., Paul Dickerson, and Gregory Corso: "Attack Anything Moving" [from an unnamed London fanzine, Fall 1986]
• 72. William Triplett and Allen Ginsberg: "William Burroughs, Intellectual Gunman" [from The Washington Review, June/July 1984]
• 73. Regina Weinreich: "Queer" [radio interview, previously unpublished]
• 74. Jürgen Ploog: "Writing in the Future" [previously unpublished]
• 75. Tom Vitali: "A Moveable Feast" [previously unpublished]
• 76. James Fox: "The Return of the Invisible Man" [from The Sunday Times Magazine, 22 March 1987]
• Shooting Gallery (1986-1997):
• 77. Brion Gysin: "Port of Entry, 1960" [from Soft Need, issue 9, Spring 1976]
• 78. Phillip Taafe [sic, Philip Taaffe]: "Drawing Dialogue" [published in Drawing Dialogue]
• 79. Larry McCafferty and Jim McMenamin: "The Non-Body Route" [published in Across the Wounded Galaxies]
• 80. Miles: "An Explosion of Color" [published in The Beat Scene (1989), in part]
• 81. L. Bredin, M. Corriel, E. Heath, and W. Januszczak: "Shooting Gallery" [assembled from multiple interviews, part in Melody Maker, 11 June 1988]
• 82. [Steven] Jesse Bernstein: "Criminal Mind" [from The Rocket, July 1988]
• 83. Doug Hitchcock: "Black Smokers and Shotgun Art" [from Borderline, February/March 1989]
• 84. Nicholas Zurbrugg: "Space Art" [from Art & Text, Summer 1990]
• 85. Kristine McKenna: "I See with My Hands" [from Los Angeles Times, 26 September 1990]
• 86. Simone Ellis: "Observing the Unknown" [from Contemporanea, December 1990]
• 87: Raymond Foye: "The War Universe" [from Grand Street, issue 37, 1990]
• 88. Klaus Maeck: "Walking Out of the Pages" [from Kozmik Blues, 1991]
• 89. Eric White and Timothy Leary: "A Couple of Bohos Shooting the Breeze" [from Mondo 2000, Spring 1991]
• 90. Diego Cortez, James Grauerholz, and Philip Taafe [sic, Taaffe]: "The Wishing Machine" [previously unpublished]
• 91. Regina Weinreich: "Flying Dreams" [previously unpublished]
• 92. Tom Christie and Robbie Conal: "Grandpa from Hell" [from LA Weekly, 19 July 1996]
• 93. Nicholas Zurbrugg: "A Bleak Picture" [previously unpublished]
• 94. Kristine McKenna: "Radical Point of View" [from the Los Angeles Times, 14 July 1996]
• 95. Kathryn Shattuck: "A Legion of Fans" [from The New York Times, 26 November 1996]
• 96. Obituaries
• Last Words:
• 97: Eldon Garnet: "Afterlife" [from Impulse, March 1990, also published in Impulse Archaeology (2016)]
• 98. Victor Bockris: "Invasion" [from Interview, April 1991]
• 99. Allen Ginsberg: "The Ugly Spirit" [from The San Francisco Review of Books, January 1992]
• Notes
• Biography of Interviews
• Index