What Is RealityStudio.org?

RealityStudio.org is a community and reference website devoted to William S. Burroughs and the 1960s underground press. It describes itself as "the web's leading resource" for that subject and serves fans, writers, and scholars interested in Burroughs, Naked Lunch, cut-ups, and related material. If you are looking for a single place to read Burroughs texts, interviews, and scholarship, or to trace where his work appeared in small magazines, this site is built for that purpose.

Who the site is for

The site names its audience directly: fans, writers, and scholars. That mix shows up in how the content is organized — some sections are primary texts, others are bibliographic or critical.

• Fans can read Burroughs texts and outtakes, plus interviews and biographical material.
• Writers and researchers can use the bibliography and archive sections to locate where pieces were published.
• Scholars can work through criticism and scholarship sections, including contributed essays.

What you can find there

The site is organized into sections rather than a single feed. Based on its own listing, the main areas include:

The archive list is unusually specific, naming individual little magazines and presses such as Evergreen Review, Floating Bear, Fuck You Press, My Own Mag, Kulchur, Yugen, and others. That makes the site useful if you are trying to trace a Burroughs text to its original venue rather than just read a reprinted version.

Recent and featured material

The site's "What's New" area shows the kind of material it publishes:

• S.E. Gontarski on the politics of the Burroughs archive at Florida State University, arguing that modern archival administration "increasingly privileges ownership, branding, and custodial control over scholarly activation, interpretive collaboration, and open research ecosystems."
• Keaton Studebaker presenting previously unseen David Gahr photographs of the 1965 opening of Peace Eye Book Store.
• A note on the death of James Grauerholz, who managed Burroughs' career for more than 50 years and oversaw his estate, with links to an obituary by Oliver Harris and a post by the Allen Ginsberg Estate.
• "Mapping the Secret Location," a section on the Ed Sanders Papers at Princeton University, with posts by Jed Birmingham and Keaton Studebaker.

There are also publications listed under the site's own imprint, including Death in Paris by Carl Weissner, The Fluke by Jacques Stern, Flesh Film by Jürgen Ploog, Retaking the Universe by Davis Schneiderman, Philip Walsh, and Edward S. Robinson, and The Road to Interzone: Reading William S. Burroughs Reading by Michael Stevens.

How to use it

1. Start with the section list if you know what you want — texts, interviews, biography, scholarship, criticism, or bibliography.
2. Use the archive list when you need to find where a Burroughs piece first appeared in a small magazine or press.
3. Check "What's New" for recent essays, photo features, and archive-related posts.
4. Follow the author pages (Jed Birmingham, Oliver Harris, Ian MacFadyen, and others) if you want to read a specific contributor's work across sections.

What it is not

The site does not present itself as a commercial storefront or a general Burroughs news feed. Its focus is the texts, the publications they appeared in, and the scholarship around them. If you need a quick biography or a full collected works, this is a research and community resource rather than a replacement for a published edition.