William S. Burroughs

The End of the Road

R. R. Reno The road dominates the American imagination, from the Oregon Trail to Route 66. That strange, in-between time…

16 years ago

In Tangier

by Steven O'Sullivan "A true document of human desperation." -Playwright Tennessee Williams on Mohamed Choukri's autobiographical novel about life in…

16 years ago

The Beat Generation and Travel

A short except from Issue Six.

16 years ago

The Beat Generation and Travel

More so than any other literary movement, the Beats have influenced the world of travel and have helped shape our…

16 years ago

Walking With the Barefoot Beat: Alene Lee

by Christina Diamente No girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering And so beautifully her soul…

16 years ago

Cut-Up

A few essays on William S. Burroughs, cut-up into a Burroughsesque cut-up mess...

16 years ago

Naked Lunch at Fifty

“‘Disgusting,’ they said . . . ‘Pornographic’ . . . ‘Un-American trash’ . . . ‘Unpublishable’ . . . Well,…

16 years ago

Visions of Burroughs

by Steven O'Sullivan It's like a compass. A compass operates on magnetics. People always seem to be in such a…

16 years ago

Naked Lunch on Film: Filming The Unfilmable

by David S. Wills The novel does not obviously lend itself to adaptation for the screen: it has dozens of…

16 years ago

Do the Beats Matter Today?

by Harry Burrus When Jack Kerouac died in 1969, only one of his 20+ books was in print. At the…

16 years ago

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