William S. Burroughs

...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",...

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...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

...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...

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...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...

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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...

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...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

...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

...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...

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...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...

In this article: Dan Chaon and NPR

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...

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