William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs Weighs In On Sarah Palin

The Aristocrats (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008

I'd like to have lunch with Sarah Palin, naked.

Lofa Tatupu Suffers Bone Bruise, Otherwise Okay

Field Gulls (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008

" Perhaps all pleasure is only relief ." --William S. Burroughs Fitting a junkie'd understand the simple joy of no longer feeling sick, sad and hollow.

The Rum Also Rises

Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008

Ernest Hemingway loved booze. That's an inarguable fact on a par with "Hunter S. Thompson liked cocaine" or "William S. Burroughs shot heroin." Needless to say, the guy pretty much had a favorite bar in every city he lived in, and wrote about them as if they were old lovers. But few watering holes a...

Black Rider

Lemmingworks (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008

.:November Theatre:. is putting on a production of Tom Waits and William S. Burroughs’ Black Rider in Toronto this fall. I want to go for halloween!

Man is a Bad Animal

Global Intellect (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008

Listen to William Burroughs today… Technorati Tags: William-S.-Burroughs Original post by Brad

Turn The Page: William S Burroughs

skull cull (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008

I wanted to celebrate the books which I have in my William Burroughs collection so I found this site and hunted down all the covers of the books I actually own. Someone on a forum recently asked who rewired my head and the guy who did it first and keeps doing it was Burroughs. A [...]

1997 - A theory has it that William S. Burroughs influ...

VH1 (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008

Jan Herman: Lunchtime for Burroughs

The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008

Half a century since its publication, William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch will be examined more closely by scholars, critics and other riffraff in Naked Lunch @ 50: Anniversary Essays.

Flotsam and jetsam

Brit Lit Blogs (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008

In November of this year, Penguin will roll out a novel that has remained an enigma for over half a century. An early collaborative effort between Jack Kerouac and William S Burroughs , the mystery of And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks has now outlived its creators. With the discovery of the missing reels of Metropolis and all the haggling over Nabokov’s manuscripts , what is it about such...

Band To Watch: The Neighbourhood Council

Stereogum (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008

After two weeks of reader-tripped BTWs from Lawrence, Kansas, we mentioned there seemed to be something going on in that city, despite William S. Burroughs up and dying a few years ago. After the proclamation went out, we received notes from people in other cities and towns and territories, letting us know that, no actually, it's such and such where things are happening. One such place: Calgary, Alberta...

Last words: Environmental tobacco smoke

Kalimna (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008

'Last twinges of a coffin posting this book where the awning flaps a distant thank-you'. (William S. Burroughs) The US Surgeon General’s ‘Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoking’ is a massive 19MB document with a reasonably accessible Executive Summary . The evidence is mainly for the US but many arguments apply to Australia. It is a 2006 report but I have only just had the chance...

Does this shit happen to Jonathan Safran Foer?

Brit Lit Blogs (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008

As Galleycat notes, Book Expo 2008 started so well for Tony O’Neill : from trading books with Slash , to talking William S Burroughs with director John Landis and catching up with Dan Fante and Jerry Stahl . Then, It was right after meeting Jerry that I caught Vanessa’s eye. She was frantically gesturing for me to join her. When I did I found her deep in conversation with – oh God, she’s deep in conversation...

William Burroughs Shotgun Painting at Auction

Impact Lab (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008

Burroughts Had A Blast With His Art Timothy Leary’s estate, the Futique Trust, is auctioning off a an original painting from the infamous Shotgun Art series of William S. Burroughs. The piece was a gift to Leary from Burroughs in the late ’80s. The painting, which hung in the Leary’s living room for years, is being auctioned [...]

• William Burroughs Shotgun painting at auction - Boing Boing

William S. Burroughs - The Wild Fruits

The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008

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William S. Burroughs - A Thanksgiving Prayer

The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008

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