William S Burroughs

What's on the End of the Fork? 'Naked Lunch @ 50' in Paris

Jan Herman | Posted 07.25.2009 | Living


Jan Herman

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

Harold Norse, R.I.P.

Jan Herman | Posted 07.17.2009 | Living


Jan Herman

He said he was a poet, too. I no longer recall what we talked about, but it didn't take long for him to invite me back to his room at 9 rue Git-le-Coeur, the so-called Beat Hotel.

Waiting for a Twitch

Jan Herman | Posted 01.02.2009 | Style


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.

Hidden Burroughs-Kerouac Novel Surfaces; So Does 'the Lost Art of Ah Pook' by Malcolm Mc Neill

Jan Herman | Posted 12.12.2008 | Media


Jan Herman

This month provides a happy occasion for legions of Jack Kerouac fans, to say nothing of William S. Burroughs cultists, who always seem eager for new revelations about both writers' works.