William S. Burroughs Archives - Page 5 of 31

Cool Cats: Beat Poets and their Feline Friends

Posted by David S. Wills | Oct 28, 2017 | Essays

For some reason, if you look back through literary history, it seems most great authors had a...

It was summer 91, I think, when sharing a joint on a brick fire escape after a night of...

Posted by David S. Wills | Sep 21, 2017 | Essays

The Beat Generation was not just important as a countercultural movement. We don’t just remember...

Posted by David S. Wills | Sep 16, 2017 | Essays

The writers of the Beat Generation were not just great at composing poems or producing...

Posted by David S. Wills | Sep 10, 2017 | Essays

The 1940s and 50s were difficult years to be non-conformist, and that was doubly true if you were...