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William S. Burroughs

Features

Friday, July 17 2009

An Unlikely Candidate for Influence: 'Naked Lunch' at 50 Years Young

William S. Burroughs changed the way writers would think of honesty in literature, achieving the mark of true greatness in 20th century literature by releasing the last banned book in the United States.


Columns

Friday, March 20 2009

Little Murders: And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

This is not Tom Brokaw’s Greatest Generation but, rather, Hunter S. Thompson’s Generation of Swine, the urban home front during the waning days of World War II, gritty and unvarnished, and chillingly reflective of modern sociology.


Blogs

Thursday, November 18 2010

"William S. Burroughs: A Man Within" (trailers)

William S. Burroughs, probably best known as the author of Naked Lunch, is the subject of the forthcoming documentary film, William S. Burroughs: A Man…


News

Monday, June 4 2012

‘Naked Lunch’ author Burroughs, never was an uneasy interview

The latest issue of Sensitive Skin, a magazine “by and for ne’er-do-wells, black sheep, blackguards, scoundrels and wastrels,” features a long interview with William S.…


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