William Burroughs

Barney Rosset, Richard Seaver, and William Burroughs in Midcentury Paris

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Henry Miller, Peter Orlovsky, James Baldwin, Harold Norse, Woody Allen, William Burroughs, Irwin Shaw, Jean Genet, Bill Morgan. Brion Gysin, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Jeannette Seaver, Peter Stone, Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Gertrude Stein, Richard Seaver, George Plimpton, D.H. Lawrence, Barney Rosset, Books News
Regina Weinreich

Barney Rosset died last week at age 89, and for those who valued his contribution to upholding First Amendment rights in this country, his championing the works of artists, the event truly marks the end of an era.

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WATCH: When Great Artists Collaborate

Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Kanye West, Salvador Dali, Lady GaGa, Louis Vuitton, William Burroughs, Music Videos, Artist Duos, Tim Burton, Pt Anderson, Sonic Youth, Alfred Hitchcock, Jeremy Blake, Video, Takashi Murakami, Artist Collaborations, Video Art, Danny Elfman, Arts News

You know the saying: they go together like peanut butter and jelly... spaghetti and meatballs... Christian Louboutin and David Lynch. When two big bra...

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The 5 Most Frequently Stolen Books From Bookstores

blogs.publishersweekly.com | Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Women, On the Road, Stolen Books, Paul Auster, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, The New York Trilogy, Martin Amis, Most Stolen Books, William Burroughs, Naked Lunch, Bookstores, Books News

Yesterday, historian and author Barry H. Landau was arrested on charges of stealing historical documents, including ones signed by Abraham Lincoln, fr...

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Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe: Brainiac Amours in Just Kids

Holly Cara Price | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dylan, Rimbaud, Gotham Book Mart, Verlaine, Allen Ginsberg, Brainiac Amour, Janis Joplin, 1970?S, National Book Award, Entertainment News, Robert Mapplethorpe, Chelsea Hotel, Book News, Birdland, Redondo Beach, Lenny Kaye, Poetry News, Horses, William Burroughs, Patti Smith, New York City, Poetry, The Doors, Publishing, Just Kids, Arts, Memoir, Jimi Hendrix, Rolling Stones, Genet, Elegie, Cbgb?S, Marvelettes, Gloria, Kimberly, Ecco Books, Harper Collins, Entertainment News
Holly Cara Price

Only two pages in and I'm choked with sobs as I read how Patti Smith listened to her soul mate's breathing on the phone as he struggled in the hospita...

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Remembering Paul Bowles

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Larbi Layachi, Benjamin Britten, Aaron Copland, Paul Bowles, Mohammed Mrabet, Gypsy Rose Lee, Alice B. Toklas, William Burroughs, Mohamed Choukri, Leonard Bernstein, Salvador Dali. Bernardo Bertolucci, Jane Bowles, Warhol, Virgil Thomson, Debra Winger, Tennessee Williams. Lillian Hellman, W. H. Auden, Gertrude Stein, Ned Rorem, John Malkovich. Sara Driver, Ahmed Yacoubi, Books News
Regina Weinreich

In our age of instant fame, it is useful to think about an artist who was famous for not being in the limelight. In Bowles' time, the cult of personality was taking hold.

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Vintage Burroughs for Thanksgiving

Jan Herman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: William Burroughs, Thanksgiving, Arts News
Jan Herman

Words of Gratitude. It's the week of Thanksgiving, after all. And here's more Burroughs ... on Jesus ... the A-Bomb ... the Titanic ... Doc Benway .....

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Blague d'Art: Brion Gysin, Together at Last

Peter Frank | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art, The New Museum, Brion Gysin, Performance Art, William Burroughs, Artists, Patti Smith, Keith Haring, Poetry, Paris, Arts News
Peter Frank

The retrospective at New York's New Museum exposes Gysin as a restless experimenter with a consistent vision, an inconsistent style, and an enduring commitment to several art forms.

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HuffPost Review: Howl

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Celluloid Closet, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jon Hamm, Jack Kerouac, Beat Movement, Howl, William Burroughs, City Lights Press, Mary Louise Parker, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Allen Ginsberg, The Times of Harvey Milk, David Strathairn, Bright Star, Jeff Daniels, Howl Movie Review, Neal Cassidy, James Franco, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Howl is a gutsy, inventive film about an important moment. It's not for everyone but should please those who are open to the chances it takes.

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William Burroughs' Unseen Graphic Novel To Be Published

The Guardian | Alison Flood | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Book News, William Burroughs, William Burroughs Comics, Comics, Graphic Novel, New Graphic Novel, Malcolm Mcneill, Fantagraphics Books, Ah Pook Is Here, Burroughs, Naked Lunch, Books News

'The Naked Lunch' author began work on 'Ah Pook Is Here' with artist Malcolm McNeill in 1970, when the story appeared as a monthly comic strip in the ...

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Brion Gysin's Mice Come Out to Play

Jan Herman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Brion Gysin, William Burroughs, The New Museum, The Dream Machine, Cut-Ups, Arts News
Jan Herman

"Brion Gysin: Dream Machine" opens today (July 7) at the New Museum, in New York, and runs through Oct. 3. It is the first U.S. retrospective of Gysin's work as painter, performer, poet, and writer.

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A New Book the Censors Won't Love

Jan Herman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Frank Zappa, Carl Weissner, William Burroughs, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski, Books News
Jan Herman

A new novel hits the bookshelves in Vienna, and the Austrian television network ORF interviews the author. Try getting a novelist interviewed on the evening news in America.

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Bill & Tony With a Twist

Jan Herman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Propaganda, William Burroughs, Antony Balch, Entertainment News
Jan Herman

After 34 years, this video looks primitive. But Burroughs got a kick out of demonstrating how easy it was to superimpose Nixon's face on Mao's, speaking with the voice of Hitler or Stalin.

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Sex and the City II: The Morocco Connection

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Carrie & Co, Sex and the City, William Burroughs, Paul Bowles, Jane Bowles, Entertainment News
Regina Weinreich

The actors of Sex and the City may have enjoyed a premiere party in Moroccan style splendor at Lincoln Center's Damroch Park, but I was in the real Morocco, in Tangier.

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William Burroughs: What Was Inside His Bowery Apartment

Gothamist | Jen Carlson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Peter Ross, Photographs, Authors, William Burroughs, William S. Burroughs, Ymca, Books, New York City, The Bowery, Books News

Did you know that author William S. Burroughs lived in a partially converted YMCA at 222 Bowery? He called the apartment "The Bunker," and it's still ...

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Of Darwin, Disney, God,
and William Burroughs

Jan Herman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andre Perkowski, Walt Disney, William Burroughs, Malcolm Mc Neill, Charles Darwin, Home News
Jan Herman

Darwin simply redefined God as a kind of super Walt Disney who changes one thing into another on a whim. Life has been viewed as an animated cartoon ever since.

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Calling All Burroughs Junkies

Jan Herman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: William Burroughs, Naked Lunch, Media News
Jan Herman

The one-stop shop for all things William Burroughs, RealityStudio, has had a design overhaul.

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A Burroughs Milestone

Jan Herman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Robert Creeley, Beat Hotel, Olympia Press, Brion Gysin, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Big Table, Black Mountain Review, Leroi Jones, Irving Rosenthal, Diane Di Prima, Naked Lunch, Semina 4, Maurice Girodias, Yugen, Video, Healthy Living News
Jan Herman

Jed Birmingham discusses the importance of little magazines to William Burroughs and their role in the publication and reception of Naked Lunch.

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Waiting for a Twitch

Jan Herman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Memoir, William Burroughs, Malcolm Mc Neill, Books, Manhattan, Excerpt, Art, Book Excerpt, William S. Burroughs, Art Shows, Gallery, Style News
Jan Herman

Malcolm Mc Neill's memoir about his longtime collaboration with William S. Burroughs, Observed While Falling, is just as spellbinding as his show at Salomon Arts in Manhattan.

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