Allegories from the Cave: Burroughs and Trocchi – a Platonic Love
‘Demiurgos scowled, and with that Plato awoke. Or did he?’ Voltaire The drug experience has often...
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Cutting Up the Century: A Review
Ever since the hundredth anniversary of William S. Burroughs’ birth in 2014, there has been a glut...
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The Great Writing Caper
William S. Burroughs often suggested that one’s dreams are a valuable target for the writer...
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Angry Young Men Become Nice Old Men: A Review of Don’t Hide the Madness
In March, 1992, Allen Ginsberg visited his old friend, William S. Burroughs, at his home in...
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The Revised Boy Scout Manual: Burroughs on Fake News and Scientology
Ohio State University Press has recently published a “lost masterpiece” by William S. Burroughs,...
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4 Important Travel Destinations for the Beat Generation
The Beats were, in many ways, an international literary movement. Although in defining the Beat...
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Cool Cats: Beat Poets and their Feline Friends
For some reason, if you look back through literary history, it seems most great authors had a...
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Who Owns the Dropper Owns the Fix: Out to Lunch with William Burroughs
It was summer 91, I think, when sharing a joint on a brick fire escape after a night of...
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What the Beats can teach us about writing
The Beat Generation was not just important as a countercultural movement. We don’t just remember...
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The Best Beat Generation Letter Collections
The writers of the Beat Generation were not just great at composing poems or producing...
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The Beat Generation and Mental Hospitals
The 1940s and 50s were difficult years to be non-conformist, and that was doubly true if you were...
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The Beats in Greece
As the birthplace of Western democracy, literature, and philosophy, it is hardly surprising that...
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