Empire of the Sun, French edition, Denoël (1985), with cover art ‘Singapour 1945′ by Ronald Seatle. Thanks to Herve for all cover scans. Interview by Tony Cartano & Maxim Jakubowski. Translation by Dan O’Hara. The following interview, originally titled ‘Le passé compos...

William S. Burroughs &Disposable Heroes Of HiphocrisySpare Ass Annie And Other Tales Includes A Special Bonus Track: Pedra Que Rola Não Cria Limo!...

LEFT: Burroughs in 1963: ‘particularly spectral and menacing: a fitting mug shot for a literary outlaw’ (image via Reality Studio). RIGHT: Moorcock, from around the same era (image via Moorcock’s Miscellany). Over at Reality Studio, there’s an excellent interview with Michael...

Illustrations by Mike Saenz for two Ballard stories in Semiotext(e) SF: ‘Jane Fonda’s Augmentation Mammoplasty’ and ‘Report on an Unidentified Space Station’. Rudy Rucker’s wonderful reminiscences about the early days of cyberpunk (’it felt like being an early Beat̵...

Will Dennison: The bars close at 3am on Saturday nights so I got home about 3.45. The buzzer rang. I opened the door and three people came in. Phillip Tourian is 17 and the kind of boy literary fags write sonnets about. Allan Ramsay is 40, tall and a little flabby. On their own they're all right; to...

‘William Burroughs at his writing machine, New York, fall 1953. One of numerous, rarely seen photographs taken by Allen Ginsberg that feature in a special Gallery section of Naked Lunch@50, here Ginsberg’s Kodak Retina records a crucial moment for Burroughs, as he worked on the manuscripts o...

Who monopolised immortality? Who monopolised cosmic consciousness? Who monopolised Love Sex and Dream? … Who took from you what is yours? Now will they give it back? Did they ever give anything away for nothing? Did they ever give any more than they had to give?Did they not always take back what t...

Every now and then I get sent links to articles about Ian Curtis that mention Ballard. While I find Curtis interesting I try to refrain from posting about him as I don’t really think there’s much to be said about the Ballard connection that hasn’t been said before. Curtis nicked th...

Further to yesterday’s post on Lord Horror, I urge you to follow it up with a reading of this interview with Britton and Butterworth over at Reality Studio. It’s about the Savoy duo’s meeting with Burroughs in 1979 and is in two parts, the first conducted by Sarajane Inkster in 199...

Keith Seward, aka Supervert, is a writer based in New York. He also runs Reality Studio, a website and forum devoted to Burroughs. Reality Studio has had a big impact on ballardian.com in that it’s a template for how to present an intelligent and provocative site about a major cultural figure ...