BRIGHTON, UK — For the duration of the visit, we are invited to pretend that a space around the corner from the British Museum has become that site of Beat-generation novelist, painter, and performer ...
Long before it was popular for New Age norteamericanos to visit the Andes Mountains seeking psychedelic enlightenment from ayahuasca, the Beat novelist William Burroughs made the trek. But he took the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. All of this was shot, at the time and on the hoof, at the gnomically titled Nova Convention by Howard Brookner, subject of ...
Lost Watches is a take on that kind of experience, but it mirrors the expectations that society has of all of us, or that we think it does, as the madnesses that we all seek refuge in, to comfort and ...
EXCLUSIVE: Unfolding in New York’s East Village in 1978, the Nova Convention has gone down in history as a legendary counterculture meeting headlined by Naked Lunch novelist William S. Burroughs, and ...
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Meet William Burroughs, counterculture guru turned country squire. Sure, he’s a famous writer who just signed a deal for seven books, but he’s also a regular guy who lives in Kansas and likes to go ...
"Fifty years ago, Norman Mailer asserted, "William Burroughs is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius." Few since have taken such literary risks, developed ...