FILMMAKER GUS VAN SANT ‘NEVER LEFT THE BEAT INFLUENCE’
As an aspiring teenage artist, Gus Van Sant had his head turned by the writing of Jack Kerouac...
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BEAT SURRENDER: RECLAIMING THE LEGACY OF LUCIEN CARR
Lucien Carr wasn’t just the person who brought Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs together in...
YOU CAN’T WIN: WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS AND THE REAL JACK BLACK
Jack Black was a burglar, rambler, jailbird and writer whose lone published memoir, You Can’t Win (1926), was...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS: A WORD FROM THE WISE GUY
Billy Hough is a longtime fan of William S. Burroughs. He sees parallels between Burroughs’ writings and our...
CHARLEY PLYMELL: OUTLAW POET & ORIGINAL PUNK
Poet, publisher, provocateur and people-connector, Charley Plymell is, like fellow Midwesterner Ed Sanders, a floater among contingents of...
PAGING V. VALE: STILL RE/SEARCHING FOR THE TRUTH
Countercultural anthropologist and founding member of Blue Cheer, V. Vale has documented the 1970s San Francisco punk scene...
NAKED BREAKFAST: WHERE TO START WITH WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Burroughs’ vision, birthed in the Midwest during the Great Depression and brought to maturity by the Beat Generation,...
THE BEAT GENERATION WAS NOT JUST A BOYS’ CLUB
Allen Ginsberg likened the Beat Generation to a “boy gang,” yet there were a number of strong women,...
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TOP QUOTES FROM WILLIAM BURROUGHS INTERVIEW WITH LEGS MCNEIL
On October 30, 1990 Legs McNeil visited the legendary author William S. Burroughs at his home in Lawrence,...
WILLIAM BURROUGHS TARGET PRACTICE
by Legs McNeil – Photos by Jim Tynan For a few years, back in the late 1980’s when...
WARHOL, BURROUGHS, AND NICO AT THE CHELSEA HOTEL!
We are privy to a quiet dinner with William Burroughs and Andy Warhol at The Chelsea Hotel in...