William S. Burroughs

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

Rub Out The Words: Collected Letters 1959-1974

Edited and with an Introduction by Bill Morgan.   At the point this second volume of his Collected Letters opens,…

13 years ago

A Report on The Final Academy: Then & Now

17th October 2012 sees the publication of Academy 23, an ‘unofficial’ celebration of William S. Burroughs & The Final Academy,…

14 years ago

Noise Poetry: An Interview with Thurston Moore

As an MFA fiction student at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University (one of the longest,…

14 years ago

Guilty of Everything

Herbert Huncke was the man who brought the word "beat" to the Beat Generation. He was a New York hustler,…

14 years ago

Final Academy 2012

FINAL ACADEMY / 2012 - Horse Hospital, Bloomsbury, October 27th, 2012. 8pm. £8/£7.50 adv. This event honours The Final Academy…

14 years ago

Studying at Saint Hill

In researching my next book, Scientologist! William S. Burroughs and the 'Weird Cult', I was given the opportunity to speak…

14 years ago

A Few Words From Patti Smith On Writing and Beats

On May 15, Patti Smith told us about her new record, Banga, and some of the source for the title…

14 years ago

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