1991 film Naked Lunch. Television An alternate, fictitious retelling of the circumstances of Vollmer’s death are recounted in a flashback during an episode of the animated television show [“Archer”], in which the character Arthur Woodhouse is shown seated at a table across from an unseen figure. With a tourniquet on his right arm and a revolver in his left hand, Woodhouse states “Let’s liven things up, Burroughs! 5 grams of junk says I can shoot a Piña Colada off your wife’s head!” Notes Sources Ted Morgan, Literary Outlaw, the Life and Times of William S. Burroughs (1988, Henry Holt, ) Jack Kerouac, The Vanity of Duluoz (1967–1968, Coward-McCann, ) Collins, Ronald & Skover, David, Mania: The Story of the Outraged & Outrageous Lives that Launched a Cultural Revolution (Top-Five Books, March 2013) External links Vollmer Literary Kicks. Joan Vollmer site - includes a reprinted newspaper account of Vollmer's death as well as Allen Ginsberg's poem by the same name Shooting Joan Burroughs - William Burroughs at home in 1997 Beat (2000) 1923 births 1951 deaths People from Loudonville, New York American expatriates in Mexico Barnard College alumni Beat Generation people Deaths by firearm in Mexico William S. Burroughs Accidental deaths in Mexico Firearm accident victims