William S. Burroughs
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Obviously This Miniature Idiot Has A Blog, An Opinion, And Therefore A National Platform...convention and live a fully actualized life outside the confines of the prison that is the English language. The influence of William S Burroughs is palpable in Jackie's effortlessly rambling prose, but the reader detects shades of Edgar... In this article: Sarah Palin, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan, STD, William S Burroughs, and Katie Couric |
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Omaha World-Herald | 1 day ago
Cool cats and hip chicks find poetry just crazy, man
...of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Beat writers of the time include Kerouac, best known for On the Road, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs. Dressed in their best hipster attire, students arrived at 7:45 a.m. for the poetry reading. They...
In this article: Jack Kerouac, Shel Silverstein, Pastry, Cocoa, Beat Generation, On the Road, William Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg
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Independent.co.uk - Books | 1 day ago
Boyd Tonkin: How to ruin a great writer's good name
...ways, remarkable, do the following authors have in common: Kingsley Amis, Saul Bellow, Roberto Bolano, Jorge Luis Borges, William Burroughs, Italo Calvino, John Cheever, Ralph Ellison, Janet Frame, Allen Ginsberg, Czeslaw Milosz, Yukio...
In this article: Vladimir Nabokov, The Original of Laura, Lolita, Kingsley Amis, Penguin, and Moniza Alvi
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Boing Boing | 1 day ago
MTV's Buzz: fantastically forward-thinking TV from 1990
...show, and in fact Mondo founder RU Sirius was interviewed on the first episode. Other notable contributors/subjects included William S. Burroughs, Jenny Holzer, Genesis P-Orridge, Syd Mead, and many other happy mutants. This was the future...
In this article: MTV, Democracy, Appropriation, DVD, and YouTube
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Crooks and Liars | 1 day ago
Sarah Palin on Hannity: Just a regular transmission from Outer Wingnuttia
...Sarah Palin being interviewed is always a little like watching an incoherent art-student film or something from a William S. Burroughs fantasy. It obviously comes from a completely different planet in a different quadrant of the...
In this article: Sarah Palin, Sean Hannity, Katie Couric, Barack Obama, NewsMax, Glenn Beck, John McCain, and Bill Ayers
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Sydney Morning Herald - Business | 2 days ago
Dose of reality in revelations of jail drug use
...crim disease like hep C by using a scabby, busted-up syringe. He was a reader of sorts and recalled how beat writer and famous junkie William Burroughs wrote about using an eyedropper to inject heroin when syringes were hard to come by. So...
In this article: William Burroughs, Opiate, Heroin, Hepatitis, Dog, Buprenorphine, Amphetamine, Methadone, and Melbourne
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Guardian Unlimited | 7 days ago
The problem with Nabokov
...or in the murky sexual transpositions of Proust? No: you would need to venture to the very fringes of literature - Lewis Carroll, William Burroughs, the Marquis de Sade - to find an equivalent emphasis: an emphasis on activities we rightly and...
In this article: Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, The Original of Laura, Pnin, Literature, Transparent Things, and Finnegans Wake
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Drowned in Sound - News | 7 days ago
Apse - Climb Up
...of the last millennium Apse have released just two albums proper, lost and found a host of talented musicians and developed a William Burroughs-esque 'cut up' approach to creating music, rearranging their work to reveal obtuse new geometries.
In this article: Plato, ATP, William Burroughs, In Rainbows, Radiohead, and Hollywood
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Miami Herald - Breaking News | November 12, 2009
Lucy Liu film highlights child trafficking
...10-year-old son. Only a certain kind of person took up residence at New York's notorious Chelsea Hotel. Arthur Miller, William Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, Bob Dylan and Dennis Hopper all lived there. Andy Warhol directed a film there. Sex...
In this article: Lucy Liu, Egypt, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Abel Ferrara, United States, Unicef, Chelsea, and Cairo International Film Festival
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Philly.com | November 08, 2009
Galleries: 86-minute mashup of sound, sex, film
...fashion over a soundtrack of classical movie music juxtaposed with a single, jittering, scratched still of a movie credit. (Burroughs himself was known for his use of the cut-up technique, cutting up texts to create new ones, and McLaren has...
In this article: Malcolm McLaren, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Sex Pistols, Legal age, Appropriation, Moore College of Art & Design, and Vivienne Westwood
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Boing Boing | October 28, 2009
William S. Pumpkin-Burroughs
Boing Boing reader Greg Zilm sent in this photograph of a fine pumpkin homage to William S. Burroughs. Lost paper trail allows borrower to ignore $460,000 mortgage debt A White Plains, NY federal court eliminated a woman's $460,000...
In this article: Canada, Pumpkin, Boing Boing, and US Department Of Defense
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William Seward Burroughs II (February 05, 1914 – August 02, 1997; pronounced: /ˈbʌroʊz/) was an American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer.
Much of Burroughs's work is semi-autobiographical, drawn from his experiences as an opiate addict, a condition that marked the last fifty years of his life. A primary member of the Beat Generation, he was an avant-garde author who affected popular culture as well as literature. In 1975, he was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
- Also Known As:
- William Lee
- Birth Date:
- February 05, 1914
- Birthplace:
- St. Louis, Missouri
- Death Date:
- August 02, 1997
- Place of Death:
- Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.
- Spouse:
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- Joan Vollmer (1946-1951)
- Ilse von Klapper (1937-1946)
- Relatives:
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- Ivy Lee, maternal uncle
- William Seward Burroughs I, grandfather
- Occupation:
- Novelist, Short story writer, Essayist
- Known for:
- Period:
- Postmodern
- Influenced By:
- Céline, Rimbaud, Black, Genet, Sartre, Beckett, Miller, Korzybski, Spengler, Gysin, Hammett, Welch, Conrad
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