George Rollins' "The Air in the Room, a Report from the Sixties: LSD, William Burroughs & Scientology" (2025)

n.p.: S-H Publishing (book, memoir), 2025.
9.25" x 6.25" x 0.75", 185 pages, hardcover with pictorial boards in dust-jacket, ISBN 979-8-9986861-0-8.

The Air in the Room, a Report from the Sixties: LSD, William S. Burroughs & Scientology by George D. Rollins III, as published by S-H Publishing (n.p.) as a hardcover in 2025. Cover art by George Rollins. Cover Design by Zander Raymond. Photograph of George Rollins by Thomas Antel. Uncredited cover photo of Burroughs by Charles Henri Ford.

Part personal memoir, part recollection of William S. Burroughs, this book traces a friendship with William S. Burroughs beginning in 1960s London, where the author was studying Scientology alongside Burroughs at Saint Hill. This book includes reproductions of photos of Burroughs (one of Burroughs reading at Chillingstreet Cottage, Sussex, and another of Burroughs with the author outside of Burroughs' Bunker loft, NYC), as well as ten pages of reproduced correspondence. In addition, Burroughs' certificate of completion for his Scientology solo auditing course is also reproduced.

Some mentions of Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville are also present in this book.

Contents: 

• Preface
• "The Air in the Room":
• "Introduction"
• "Childhood"
• "Boarding School"
• "University"
• Photographs, 1948-1966
• "William Burroughs & Scientology":
• "A First Hand Account"
• "New York and Ithaca"
• "Meeting William Burroughs"
• "What Is Auditing?"
• "Finding Out Who This William Was"
• "Saint Hill and Chillingstreet Cottage"
• "The Summer of 1968"
• "Burroughs' Interest in Scientology"
• "The Beginning of the End"
• "Scientology's Concept of Ethics"
• "From England to New York and Out to L.A."
• "The Bunker and Beyond"
• Photographs, 1967-2017
• Correspondance, 1969-1989
• "LSD... Waking Up":
• "1966 – The Trip that Changed Everything"
• "The Birds and the Bees and the Burning Bush":
• "The Reason for Being"
• "Ordinary Sexual Orgasm"
• "Extra-Ordinary Non-Sexual Orgasm"
• "Where the Action Is"