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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‘Demiurgos scowled, and with that Plato awoke. Or did he?’ Voltaire The drug experience has often...
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Ever since the hundredth anniversary of William S. Burroughs’ birth in 2014, there has been a glut...
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William S. Burroughs often suggested that one’s dreams are a valuable target for the writer...
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In March, 1992, Allen Ginsberg visited his old friend, William S. Burroughs, at his home in...
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Ohio State University Press has recently published a “lost masterpiece” by William S. Burroughs,...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Dec 12, 2017 | Essays | 0
The Beats were, in many ways, an international literary movement. Although in defining the Beat...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Oct 28, 2017 | Essays | 0
For some reason, if you look back through literary history, it seems most great authors had a...
Read Moreby Leon Horton and Stephen James | Oct 11, 2017 | Memoirs, Fiction & Poetry | 0
It was summer 91, I think, when sharing a joint on a brick fire escape after a night of...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Sep 21, 2017 | Essays | 0
The Beat Generation was not just important as a countercultural movement. We don’t just remember...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Sep 16, 2017 | Essays | 0
The writers of the Beat Generation were not just great at composing poems or producing...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Sep 10, 2017 | Essays | 0
The 1940s and 50s were difficult years to be non-conformist, and that was doubly true if you were...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Aug 24, 2017 | Essays | 0
As the birthplace of Western democracy, literature, and philosophy, it is hardly surprising that...
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