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Storming the Reality Studio with Uncle Bill: Some Thoughts on William S. Burroughs and the Movies

From Beatdom #14   Until really quite recently, of the “big names” that one thinks of in association with the…

12 years ago

American Mutants Spawned in the Bunker

Originally published in Beatdom #14, and excerpted from the forthcoming memoir/scrapbook, Don't Hesitate: Knowing Allen Ginsberg '72 Through '92.  …

12 years ago

Pulling Our Daisy: The Illusion of Spontaneity

1959 was an important year in Beat Generation history. It was the year that William S. Burroughs published Naked Lunch…

12 years ago

William S. Burroughs, C. J. Bradbury Robinson, and Williams Mix

Love or hate him, venerate or revile him, the life and work of William Seward Burroughs continues to inspire and…

12 years ago

Exiled on Beat Street

In 1957 Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky were in the midst of the obscenity trials in the US surrounding the…

12 years ago

Nude Supper

Nude Supper i   Desolation Angels, p.341 [Kerouac about Burroughs] "...rejecting him completely from their interior decorated living rooms in retirement…

13 years ago

The Beat Rap Sheet

But yet, but yet, woe, woe unto those who think that the Beat Generation means crime, delinquency, immorality, amorality ...…

13 years ago

Billy Burroughs: Gentleman Farmer

The notion of Burroughs as a farmer – even an inept one - may not sit right with readers of…

13 years ago

William Blake and the Beat Generation

William Blake’s influence on the Beat Generation is arguably more significant than that of any other writer or artist. Most…

13 years ago

Excerpt: CBGB Was My High School

by G.K. Stritch - find it on Amazon The Mudd Club turned out to be a bittersweet place where I…

13 years ago

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