William S. Burroughs

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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

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