Schottlaender Brian E. C. author Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library contributor Columbia University. Libraries and Information Services originator text Articles 2009 English The bibliography of William S. Burroughs is as challenging as the man was himself. He wrote voluminously and kaleidoscopically. He rearranged, recycled, and reiterated obsessively. He produced across five decades and four continents. He was a novelist, a poet, an essayist, and a correspondent at home in all media. He never met a "little magazine" or an interviewer he wouldn’t share with. Presented at the Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library conference, "Fifty Years of Naked Lunch: From the Interzone to the Archive . . . and Back," New York, N.Y., October 9, 2009. American literature