William S. Burroughs
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UFOs, Orgasms and the Occult: The Tucson Connection...songwriters have written and recorded songs about Wilhelm Reich. Jack Keurouac referenced Reich's work in his book On the Road, as did William Burroughs through his own works. The idea of orgasmic energy didn't die either. In fact, the idea of... In this article: Wilhelm Reich, Tucson, Israel Regardie, Aleister Crowley, Food and Drug Administration, Arizona, Kenneth Arnold, Cancer, and Sigmund Freud |
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Wonkette | 4 days ago
Vote Gary Stein For New Jersey Governor RIGHT NOW
...politics. Hurry up and vote for Gary Stein, quickly, before fat Chris Christie eats him! Is this some undiscovered William S. Burroughs novel? My gf texted to ask who to vote for in the local Sheriff race. I texted back "Freak Power",...
In this article: New Jersey
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Crooks and Liars | 4 days ago
C&L's Late Nite Music Club with Laurie Anderson
...of talent, including Adrian Belew on guitar and Joy Askew on keyboards, and perhaps was best known for featuring appearances by William S. Burroughs, including a brief tango with Laurie. And great songs, too. This is my favorite piece on the...
In this article: Laurie Anderson, DVD, Adrian Belew, Mister Heartbreak, and Home of the Brave
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Drowned in Sound - News | October 30, 2009
DiS meets Gary Numan
...future world view populated by robot prostitutes, rape machines and other characters born from an obsession with Philip K Dick and William Burroughs. His own inability to deal with the pressures of fame and ridicule by the press hadn't...
In this article: Gary Numan, Metal, Replicas, Cars, Complex, Tubeway Army, Nine Inch Nails, Beggars Banquet, Moog, and Sugababes
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TIME | October 28, 2009
Barack Obama's Well-Tended Money Machine
...Trackback (0) • Related Topics: barack obamawhite house, robert gibbs, william burroughs The great American poet and prose-mangler William Burroughs once offered some words of advice for young people, words that work just as well for...
In this article: Barack Obama, White House, William Burroughs, Washington Times, Robert Gibbs, Democratic National Committee, Washington, and George W. Bush
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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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The Stranger - Slog | October 14, 2009
It's About Process
...there are two really interesting stories up about writers at the dawn of personal computing. It turns out that while William S. Burroughs never got around to embracing computers: As far back as the mid-1960s, Burroughs was aware of the...
In this article: Charles Bukowski, Insect Trust Gazette, and Paris Review
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Waxy.org Links | October 14, 2009
Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, and the Computer
...and Collecting Born-Digital Literary Materials for Scholarly Use, is a case in point. William Burroughs and the Computer This takes me to the William Burroughs archive at the Berg. The index of the archive was just posted on the...
In this article: Charles Bukowski, Timothy Leary, Naked Lunch, Dog, The Dark Eye, Interzone, and Insect Trust Gazette
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MTV.com | October 12, 2009
'Where The Wild Things Are' Gives Hope To Other 'Unfilmable' Books
...amazed it ever got made. "Naked Lunch" (1991) If you think Hunter S. Thompson did a lot of drugs, well, William S. Burroughs made him look like a Girl Scout. That's why the Beat novelist's 1959 semiautobiographical novel about secret...
In this article: Terry Gilliam, Where the Wild Things Are, Hollywood, Watchmen, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, On the Road, Bret Easton Ellis, and Don Quixote
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NPR | October 10, 2009
The 'Sacrifice Generation' Comes To America
...by name and location. For additional information, please consult our Terms of Use. Once the center of an obscenity trial, William S. Burroughs' novel chronicles heroin addiction. Dan Chaon's latest novel, Await Your Reply, weaves...
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NPR | October 08, 2009
Burroughs' 'Naked Lunch,' Still Fresh At 50
Audio for this story from All Things Considered will be available at approx. 7:00 p.m. ET William S. Burroughs was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1975. He died in 1997 at the age of 83. Evening...
In this article: Naked Lunch, American Academy, Lincoln Park, Grove Press, Pound cake, Dunking, and Catnip
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Description from Wikipedia:
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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