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Author
Series
Criterion collection volume 789
Publisher
Criterion Collection Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Portrait of author William S. Burroughs filmed over five years as Brookner's senior thesis at NYU film school.
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"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 such individual political or spiritual ideas, or spanned such a wide range of media. Burroughs wrote novels, memoirs, technical manuals, and poetry. He painted, made collages, took thousands of photographs, produced hundreds of hours of experimental...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
With Gentleman Junkie, Graham Caveney gives us the definitive life of William S. Burroughs - less a biography than a "chronology of the Burroughs phenomenon," an examination of the myth behind the man. Filled with 150 color photos - many of them never seen before - and new biographical material, Gentleman Junkie shows how Burroughs's fascinating life, from Harvard to Greenwich Village to Tangiers, was matched only by his enormous impact on modern...
Publisher
Yonilizer Productions
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Burroughs was one of the first writers to break the boundaries of queer and drug culture in the 1950's. His novel Naked Lunch is one of the most recognized and respected literary works of the 20th century and has influenced generations of artists. The intimate documentary breaks the surface of the troubled and brilliant world of one of the greatest authors of all time"--Publisher's website.
Publisher
Sounds True
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
William S. Burroughs talks about his breakthrough methods for generating fresh writing: including "the cut-up method," chance operations, and dreamwork. Diane Di Prama discusses how to survive as an artist: preserving your sensibility, creating a supportive artistic community, getting published, self-publishing and more. Allen Ginsberg explores stages of poetic activity: from inspiration, to composition, to revision, to performing your poetry in public....
14) Naked lunch
Series
Criterion collection volume 220
Language
English
Formats
Description
Part-time pest-control man and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Weller) seeks escape from his troubled existence in 1953 New York and flees to Interzone (a hallucinatory version of Tangiers) where reality and fantasy have merged. It's a strange, surreal landscape inhabited by mugwumps, half-alien, half-insect creatures, man-sized centipedes, carnivorous typewriters and bizarre humans. Compelled to make sense of this alien territory, he writes a book...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A true story of obsession and murder. When Allen Ginsberg is accepted at Columbia, he finds stuffy tradition clashing with the daringly modern ideas and attitudes- embodied by Lucien Carr. Lucien is an object of fascination for shy, unsophisticated Allen, and soon he is drawn into Lucien's hard-drinking, jazz-clubbing circle of friends, including William Burroughs and David Kammerer, who clearly resents Allen's position as Lucien's new sidekick. A...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Concisely told and full of fascinating detail, The Birth of the Beat Generation chronicles the life and times of the maverick poets and novelists William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac, as well as the San Francisco group, which included Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gary Snyder. It also evokes the figures surrounding them, including Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso, Herbert Huncke, and Peter Orlovsky. This is the first book to link the Beats to...
Author
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Foster provides a survey of the four major Beat writers: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Gregory Corso. These writers were closely allied from the beginning of their careers and shared a particular vision of America, one which in turn defined much of their most celebrated work. They wrote in opposition to the materialistic, conformist culture they saw developing in postwar America, seeking through their fiction and poetry a...