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Kerouac in Cannes: A Road Not Taken

Regina Weinreich | Posted 07.26.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Kristen Stewart, Peter Orlovsky, On the Road Film, Sissy Spacek, Joyce Johnson, Jack Kerouac, Walter Salles, Steve Buscemi, Allen Ginsberg, David Cronenberg, Carolyn Cassady, Hettie Jones, John Heard, Nick Nolte, Kirsten Dunst, Naked Lunch, Amy Adams, Joan Vollmer, Robert Frank, Jose Rivera, Anne Waldman, Entertainment News
Regina Weinreich

I am pleased that the reports from Cannes about the On the Road, Walter Salles' film are mainly favorable, although I have taken note that some say there is no inner world for the characters, that the film has no discernable plot, that it is overlong.

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The 5 Most Frequently Stolen Books From Bookstores

blogs.publishersweekly.com | Posted 09.14.2011 | Books
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Yesterday, historian and author Barry H. Landau was arrested on charges of stealing historical documents, including ones signed by Abraham Lincoln, fr...

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Istanbul Publisher Faces Obscenity Trial For Releasing Book

AP | By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA | Posted 07.16.2011 | Books
Read More: Ruhi Ozbilgic, Islam, Istanbul, Turkey, Irfan Sanci, Book Banning, Beat Generation, William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, Suha Sertabiboglu, The Exploits of a Young Don Juan, The Soft Machine, Books News

ISTANBUL -- Half a century after a U.S. obscenity trial, the work of Beat Generation writer William S. Burroughs is heading back to court, this time i...

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For Your Viewing And Listening Pleasure: 10 Inspired Book And Album Pairings

flavorwire.com | Posted 06.01.2011 | Books
Read More: Edith Wharton, High Fidelity, Kanye West, The Mountain Goats, Neutral Milk Hotel, Naked Lunch, Nwa, LCD Soundsystem, The Velvet Underground, Book and Album Pairings, Books News

Combining your appreciation of different media can be tricky: You probably shouldn’t be watching a movie on your iPhone as you stroll through an art...

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William Burroughs' Unseen Graphic Novel To Be Published

The Guardian | Alison Flood | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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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The Beats Left Nelson Algren Cold, Jack Kerouac Especially

Jan Herman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Naked Lunch, Nelson Algren, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Books News
Jan Herman

I once asked Nelson Algren what he thought of Naked Lunch. I knew he had no love for any of the Beats. So his answer surprised me, because he meant it as praise.

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Calling All Burroughs Junkies

Jan Herman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
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 | Healthy Living
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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What's on the End of the Fork? 'Naked Lunch @ 50' in Paris

Jan Herman | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, Olympia Press, Healthy Living News
Jan Herman

The hint is obvious: perhaps we will be able to use synthesized humans to find cryptic viruses in literature of the future

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