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William Burroughs

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  • MARC FRANKLIN: In the process of setting up my itinerary, I called William Burroughs.

    Boing Boing Mark Frauenfelder 2011

  • His allegiance is to James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, the French nouveau roman and post-structuralist modes of thought; with a few exceptions, such as William Burroughs and

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • If we're going to savage Mary Daly so mercilessly for her gynocentric fantasies of a postfeminist future, then we should practice a bit of gender equity by citing works such as William Burroughs's phallocentric utopias (

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • His engagement with literary figures such as Allen Ginsberg is notable, as is his collaboration with writer William Burroughs.

    Bill Bush: I Shot Andy Warhol: This Artweek.LA (June 13-19) Bill Bush 2011

  • The process provided William Burroughs with a "spontaneous orgasm—no hands."

    Thinking Inside the Box Henry Allen 2011

  • Next came "Naked Lunch" by William Burroughs and John Rechy's novel of hustling, "City of Night."

    He Knew It When He Saw It James Campbell 2012

  • It was William Burroughs, the opiate-fueled writer, who memorably suggested that language itself might be a virus, manipulating us for its own purposes.

    SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

  • His engagement with literary figures such as Allen Ginsberg is notable, as is his collaboration with writer William Burroughs.

    Bill Bush: I Shot Andy Warhol: This Artweek.LA (June 13-19) Bill Bush 2011

  • William Burroughs, whom she encountered when she and Mapplethorpe were living at the Chelsea Hotel; from him I learned more about how to conduct myself, how to make the right choices in terms of – keeping your name clean.

    The Saturday interview: Patti Smith 2011

  • Dave Plunkert Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, Dwight Macdonald, J.D. Salinger, Paul Goodman, William Burroughs and other bohemian culture heroes were among his followers: examples of what Lionel Trilling unsettlingly called "the moral urgency, the sense of crisis and the concern with personal salvation that mark the existence of American intellectuals."

    Thinking Inside the Box Henry Allen 2011

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