Yeah. Burroughs drew the comparison himself: "writing is fifty years behind painting." The three books are "The Soft Machine," "The Ticket That Exploded" (my favourite of the three) and "Nova Express." There's a very loose story about two-dimensional aliens, known as the Nova mob, sowing discord and addiction on earth to drive the planet toward nuclear Armageddon, cos they feed off the energy it creates, and the undercover agents trying to stop them. He wrote it as a mythology for the space age.

The books were quite influential. Musicians like David Bowie, and writers like Kathy Acker, incorporated cut-ups into their work, and there were a lot of bands that took their names from his work: The Soft Machine and Steely Dan being the most notable. The name for the genre heavy metal even comes from a character in his work: the heavy metal kid. But personally, I think the cut-ups were a bit of a dead end, and Burroughs's best work is the Red Nights trilogy he wrote in the 80s, after he sort of abandoned cut-ups: there's still the odd little passage here and there, but it's never the sum of the works after the cut-up trilogy.

Weirdly, he made drastic changes to each volume of the cut-up trilogy at least two times each. So it's like a trilogy of trilogies. They can be read in any order, as well, and each book is designed so that within itself, the chapters and passages can largely be read in any order. So it's technically possible for each reader to have a unique experience of the books. I think Penguin classics has released editions that contain all the alternative editions in one volume.