William S. Burroughs

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Wednesday, February 5, marked what would have been the 100th birthday of one of the 20th century’s most important and notorious writers: William S.…

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Documentary William S. Burroughs: A Man Within engagingly dissects the influential writer’s body of speculative and sci-fi work. Running at nearly an hour, director Yony Leyser’s wide-ranging analysis of Burroughs’ tragic yet productive life touches all the subversive bases: The author’s accidental murder of his wife, Joan, in a drug-fueled shooting game. His creative collaboration […]

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Jack Kerouac with William Burroughs' cat. Tangier, Morocco, 1957. so rememeber what to read when coning to Morocco

William S.Burroughs

The author of Naked Lunch was born 100 years ago today. From his friendships with Beat authors such as Kerouac and Ginsberg, to his meetings with Dennis Hopper and Sting, browse images from a long and disreputable lifeWill Self on BurroughsJoin our Reading group to discuss Junky

In the late 50s the Beat movement reached its high point, with Ginsberg, Kerouac and Burroughs sharing rooms in a rundown hotel near the Seine. James Campbell visits a new exhibition at the Pompidou Centre and a pivotal moment in cultural history

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Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs were the genesis of The Beats and of course WSB was part of the huge wealth of Burroughs Business Machines and this must have helped them be supposedly 'Down & Out In Paris" and everywhere else groovy.