A., Carl, 197
Ah Pook Is Here (Burroughs), 202
Ali, Muhammad, xxii–xxiii, 217
American Field Service, xxi
American Institute of Arts and Letters, 19
Angel in the Alcove, The (Williams), 109
Apocalypse Now (film), 192–93
Asher, Peter, 72
Asimov, Isaac, 218
Auden, Elsa Mann, 41
Autobiography of a Wolf, The (Burroughs), xvii, xxii
Bacall, Lauren, 126
Bachardy, Don, 90–91
Balch, Anthony, 70, 75, 76, 220
Ballard J. G., 79
Bangs, Lester, xv
Barnes, Djuna, 42
Barris, Chuck, 120–21
Basquait, Jean, Michel, xiv, xv
Baudelaire, Charles, xx, 16, 100, 101, 194
Baum, Timothy, 160–61
Beach, Mary, 42
Beautiful and the Damned, The (film script), 119
Beauvoir, Simone de, 15
Beckett, Samuel, 3, 15, 132, 152, 207–15, 224
Bellow, Saul, 130
Benedict, Ruth, 170
Billy (Strieber), 242
Biological Time Bomb, The (Taylor), 106
Birthday Book on Bill (Bockris), 153
Black, Jack, xx–xxi
Bowie, David, 228–30
Bowie, Colonel James, 229–30
Bowles, Paul, 50, 63, 109, 110, 197
Bradbury, Ray, 218
Brando, Marlon, 192
“Brian Jones Plays with the Pipes of Pan” (recording), 219
Brighton Rock (Greene), 12
Brookner, Howard, xiii
Brown, Andreas, 78
Brown, Jerry, 126–27
Bryant, Anita, 179
Bucher, Francis, 231
“Bugger the Queen” (Burroughs), xii
Burgess, Anthony, 74
“Burroughs” (documentary), xiii
Burroughs, Ilse, 41–42
Burroughs, Mortimer (William’s father), xvii, xviii, xx
Burroughs, Mrs. Mortimer (William’s mother), xvii, xviii, xx, 27
Burroughs, Mortimer, Jr., (William’s brother, xvii, xviii
Burroughs, William, Jr., 136
Calder, John, 26, 207, 210, 213
Carr, Lucien, 201
Carter, Jimmy, 172
Carter, Rubin Hurricane, 34
Cartwright, Louis, 210
Cassady, Carolyn, 121–22
Cassady, Neal, 121–26
“Cassandra” (Robinson), 168–69
Cat Inside, The (Burroughs), 248
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, 15–16, 21
Céline, Mme. Louis-Ferdinand, 15
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 19–20, 130, 149, 151, 156, 167, 171, 174–76, 192–93
Chappaqua (Rooks), 8
Cities of the Red Night (Burroughs), ix, xiv, xxiii, 2, 11, 14, 32–34, 87, 135–36, 158
City College of New York (CCNY), 77, 135
City of Night (Rechy), 18
Clash, the, 228
Clockwork Orange, A (Burgess), 74
Colacello, Bob, xiv
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 110
Colette, 42
Columbia University, 198
Communion (Strieber), 242
Connell, A. J., 56
Conrad, Joseph, 16, 23, 46, 84, 192
Cook, Peter, 218–19
Cronenberg, David, xv
Crowley, Aleister, 116
Cummings, Anne (Felicity Mason), 42
Dali, Salvador, 217
Davis (Los Angeles police chief), 11
Day of the Jackal, The (Forsyth), 167
De Gaulle, Charles, 167
De Quincey, Thomas, 110
Dean, Loomis, 195
Deutsches (student leader), 6
Dewey, John, 170
Didion, Joan, 42
Donovan, Bill, xxi
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 170
Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S., 107
Drugstore Cowboy (Van Sant), xv
Dunbar, John, 72
Dunne, J. W., 140
Dunsany, Lord, 117
Dylan, Bob, 34, 35
Eberhardt, Isabelle, 42
Edinburgh Literary Conference (1962), 127
“Eleanor Rigby” (song), 72
Eliot, T. S., 93
Elovich, Richard, 133
Elvins, Kells, 51
Encyclopedia of Occultism (Spence), 185–86
Endgame (Beckett), 213
Evans, Mary, xvii–xviii
Experiment with Time (Dunne), 140
Exterminator (Burroughs), 32, 38, 76
Eyelids of Morning (Beard), 135
Factory, The, 17, 35, 162–65, 203, 220
Faulkner, William, 233
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 174
Federal Narcotics Bureau, 109
Film Notebooks (film), 35
Finnegans Wake (Joyce), 21
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 100, 119–20
Food and Drug Administration, U.S. (FDA), 96–98, 106, 180
Ford, Ford Madox, 84
Fortune, Dion, 186–87
Fortune magazine, 194
Fournier, Alain, 142
France, Anatole, xx
Fremont, Vincent, 162
Fulton, Robert, 133
Fusion Party, 174
General Semantics (Korzybski), 140
Genet, Jean, xxiii, 1, 14–16, 18, 66, 74, 248
Getty, J. Paul, 132
Getty J. Paul, Jr., 60, 120, 122, 132
Ginsberg, Allen, xiii, xv, 15–16, 18, 21–22, 25, 26, 34, 39–40, 42, 57, 58, 71, 73, 77, 123, 126, 151–53, 158, 171–76, 180, 198, 199, 201, 203, 207, 209–10, 212, 213
Giorno, John, xiii, xv, 51, 91, 145, 151, 153, 154, 191, 197, 198, 200, 201, 203
Girodias, Maurice, 25–26, 57, 211, 214
Goldstein, Al, 219
Grauerholz, James, xiii, xiv, 2, 33–34, 65, 77–78, 83–87, 90–91, 122, 129, 130, 133, 135–37, 157–58, 199, 217, 219, 241, 243
Great Gatsby, The (film), 119
Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald), 120
Grossman, Albert, 34
Gysin, Brion, xv, 5–6, 12, 14, 19, 26, 63, 70, 74–77, 83, 194, 219–20, 222, 248
Hammond, John, Jr., 34
Harris, Frank, 58
Harry, Deborah, xiv, 87–88, 167, 230
Harvard University, xxi
Hassan i Sabbah, 116
Heard, John, 122–23
Heart of Darkness, (Conrad), 192
Heartbeat (film), 121–26
Hell, Richard, 138
Hemingway, Ernest, 1, 100, 194
High Times (magazine), 13, 47, 64, 114, 122
Hitler, Adolf, 3, 168, 198, 199
Hollerer, Professor, 207
Howl (Ginsberg), 15
Hujar, Peter, 83
Huxley, Aldous, 135
Huxley, Francis, 135
Indica bookstore, London, 77
Inheritors, The (Conrad/Ford), 84
Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, 70
Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 196
International Times (newspaper), 72
Isherwood, Christopher, xiv, 89–91, 119–20, 122, 207
Jacobson, Max, 110
Jagger, Bianca, 22–23
Jagger, Mick, xiv, 73, 157, 220–25
Job, The (Burroughs), 76
Johns, Jasper, 225
Jordan, Fred, 156, 207, 213–14
Journeys Out of the Body (Monroe), 183–84
Joyce, James, 21, 156, 210, 213, 215
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), 119
Junky (Burroughs), 13, 15, 19, 115
Kamerrer, David, 81
Kennedy, Robert F., 167–68
Kerouac, Jack, xiv, xxii, xxiii, 9, 19, 21, 22, 24–25, 42, 81–82, 89, 121–23, 158, 171, 199
Kerouac (Burroughs), 13
Killers of the Sea, 130
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 6
Korzybski, Alfred, 140
Kowalski (artist), 160–61
Kristol, Irving, 176
Last Exit to Brooklyn (Selby), 18
Last Tycoon, The (film), 119–20
Last Words of Dutch Schultz, The (Burroughs), 13, 14, 76
Last Year at Marienbad (film), 155
Laszlo, Carl, 201–3
Leary, Timothy, 106, 121–22, 178
Leon-Talley, André, 61, 62, 177–78
Life magazine, 194
Light Reading for Light Years (Burroughs), 3
Los Alamos Ranch School, New Mexico, xx, 53–56, 117–18
Lotus Crew, The (Meyer), xiii
Love Habit, The: Sexual Confessions of an Older Woman (Cummings), 42
Lowe, Steven, 143
McCartney, Paul, 72–73
McCuller, Carson, 42
McNeil, Malcolm, 91
Mailer, Norman, xxiii
Majestic (Strieber), 242
Malanga, Gerard, 2, 16–18, 27–28, 31–32, 59, 61–63, 82–83, 93, 193
Mann, Thomas, 41
Marathon Man (film), 120
Marker, Lewis Adelbert, 44
Marx, Karl, 170
Mason, Felicity, 42
Mass, Steve, 116
Maugham, W. Somerset, 22
Mayfair magazine, 76
Mead, Taylor, 163
Meyer, Stewart, xiii, xxii, 1–2, 34–37, 200–201
Michaux, Henri, 15
Miles, 19–21, 47, 70, 72–77, 151, 158
Mondale, Walter, 175
Monroe, Robert, 183–84
Montague, Lord, 58
Montfort, Michael, 134
Naked Lunch (Burroughs), xxiii, 9, 21–24, 26, 56, 71, 114, 120, 126, 171, 194, 195, 220, 241
Naked Lunch (film), xv
Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado, 129, 136
Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 176
National Committee on Labor (Fusion Party), 174
New York Times, The, 171
Night at the Inn, A (Dunsany), 117
Nixon, Richard M., 168
Nova Convention (New York, 1978), xii, 93, 122
Nova Express (Burroughs), xii, 76
O’Connor, Flannery, 42
On the Road (Kerouac), 171
One Arm (Williams), 110
O’Neill, Eugene, 90
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 53
Orbison, Roy, 102
Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, The (Jaynes), 5, 9–10
Orlovsky, Peter, 57, 158, 172, 176
OSS, xxi
Our Man in Havana (Greene), 196
Owens, Iris, 211
Palmer, Robert, xv
Parker, Dorothy, 42
Pasolini, Pier Paolo, 137–38
Perse, St.-John, 16
Picasso, Pablo, 100
Pini, Sr., 142
Place of Dead Roads, The (Burroughs), xiv, xxiii, 158
Podhoretz, Norman, 176
Port of Saints (Burroughs), 75, 76
Portrait of Dorian Gray, The (Wilde), xx
Prisoner of Love (Genet), 248
Proust, Marcel, 14–15
Psychic Self-Defense (Fortune), 186–87
Punk rock movement, xi–xiii, xv, 127–28
Queen of Spades, The (Pushkin), 27
Quiet American, The (Greene), 12
Reader’s Digest, 193
Reagan, Ronald, 38
Rebel Without a Cause (film), 127
Rechy, John, 18
Reed, Lou, xiv, xv, 13–14, 18–19, 25, 115, 214–15
Reinholdjohn, 163–65
Remembrance of Things Past (Proust), 14–15
Renaldo and Clara (film), 34
Resnick, Marcia, 41, 99, 222–24
Retreat Diaries (Burroughs), 85, 130, 197
Reza Pahlevi, Shah of Iran, 172–75
Rich, Bill, 241
Richards, Keith, xiii, 157, 220–23
Robbe-Grillet, Alain, 155–56
Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 168–69
Rockefeller, David, 172, 174–75
Rolling Stone (periodical), 122
Rolling Stones, the, xii, 74, 220–25. See also individual band members
Romance (Conrad/Ford), 84
Rooks, Conrad, 8
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 171
“Roosevelt After Inauguration” (Burroughs), 71
Roots of Coincidence (Koestler), 130, 135
“Rubber Soul” (record album), 72–73
Ruskin, Mickey, 101
Schultz, Dutch, 14
Screw (magazine), 219
Search & Destroy (newspaper), 127
Secret Mullings About Bill (Kerouac), xiv
Selby, Hugh, 18
Seventh Seal, The (film), 16
Shakespeare, William, xvi, 13, 119
Shaw, George Bernard, 156
Shockley (geneticist), 222
Sinclair, John, 170
Smith, Patti, xi, xv, xxiii, 42, 47–49, 128
Snows of Kilimanjaro, The (Hemingway), 194
Society of Inner Light, 186
Soft Machine, The (Burroughs), 26
Soft Need (periodical), 201
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 84
Sommerville, Ian, 70, 72, 197, 204, 205
Sonta, Susan, xiv, 1–4, 42, 49, 50, 79, 115, 168, 170–71, 207, 209–13, 224
Southern, Terry, xiv, xv, 63–64, 95–105, 120–21, 151
Spacek, Sissy, 123–26
Spence, Lewis, 185–86, 197, 204
Stalin, Joseph, 170
Starkey, Ray, 126
Starr, Ringo, 72
Strieber, Anne, 242
Strieber, Whitley, 242–43, 244
Strummer, Joe, xiv, xv, 228–29
Syberberg (film director), 3
Taylor, Gordon, 106
They Do Not Always Remember (Burroughs), 32
Tibetan Book of the Dead, The, 198
Ticket That Exploded, The (Burroughs), ix, 26
Time magazine, 56–57, 84, 194–95
To Have and Have Not (film), 126
Toller, Ernst, 41–42
Tolstoy, Leo, 170
Towers Open Fire (Balch), 70
Town & the City, The (Kerouac), 81–82
Trafficante, Santo, 167–68
Transformation (Strieber), 242
Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (Traven), 120
Trinity (Uris), 193
Truman, Harry S., 171
Tynan, Kenneth, 122
Ulysses (Joyce), 21
Verdiglione (psychoanalyst), 141, 142
Victory (Conrad), 46
Vidal, Gore, 58
Villon, François, 100
Volhner, Joan, 42–44, 46–47, 56–57, 171
Waites, Tom, xv
Waldman, Anne, xv, 42, 129, 201, 203
Warhol, Andy, xiii, xiv, xv, xxii–xxiii, 41, 53–58, 61–62, 67–70, 117, 138, 162–65, 177–78, 192, 203, 220, 222–24
Waste Land, The (Eliot), 93
Watt (Beckett), 215
Waugh, Evelyn, 28
Webber, Peter, 17–18
Weissner, Carl, 8–9
Welty, Eudora, 42
West, Jim, 42
Western Lands (Burroughs), xiv
White, Phil, 111
Wild Boys, The (Burroughs), 74
Wild Party, The (Joseph Moncure March), 148
William Burroughs Communications, 136
Williams, Tennessee, xiv, 28–30, 109–10, 116, 205
Woolf, Virginia, 79
Wyman, Ingrid, 218
Yage Letters (Burroughs/Ginsberg), 198
You Can’t Win (Black), xx–xxi