William S. Burroughs lecture on Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and A Short Trip Home, and Stephen King's The Shining. Burroughs also discusses exercises for increasing awareness, books as mental film, codes of conduct, heroes, and the film of Burroughs's novel Naked Lunch. From Naropa University, August, 1979. This recording and the entire Naropa Collection is licensed under an Attribution-NonDerivs-NonCommerical license. This video is fair use of the material.