William S. Burroughs Archives - Page 28 of 31

Cut-Up

Posted by David S. Wills | Jan 11, 2010 | Beatdom Content

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

Naked Lunch at Fifty

Posted by David S. Wills | Jan 11, 2010 | Beatdom Content, Essays

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

Visions of Burroughs

Posted by David S. Wills | Jan 11, 2010 | Beatdom Content, Essays

by Steven O’Sullivan It’s like a compass. A compass operates on magnetics. People always seem to be in such a rush to articulate themselves. But maybe we just can’t articulate certain emotions. Maybe...

Naked Lunch on Film: Filming The Unfilmable

Posted by David S. Wills | Jan 11, 2010 | Beatdom Content, Essays

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

Do the Beats Matter Today?

Posted by David S. Wills | Jan 11, 2010 | Beatdom Content, Essays

by Harry Burrus When Jack Kerouac died in 1969, only one of his 20+ books was in print. At the time, many critics announced the Beat Generation was irrelevant and had faded away. Others claimed the Beats were an insignificant...