An Istanbul council wants a William S. Burroughs’s 1961 novel banned for “vulgarity,” “slang,” “a fragmented narrative,” “attitudes permissive to crime,” myths and “hurting people’s moral feelings.” Bill, you immortal badass.
Someone in Kansas has a jar of authentic William S. Burroughs shit. Bioartists Tony Allard and Adam Zaretsky are going to extract the transgressive writer’s genes from said shit, amplify and shoot them into some cell nuclei with an art gun… Now that’s fitting. With an approving nod from Burroughs Estate, Mutate or Die: a W.S. Burroughs Biotechnological Bestiary will combine “flora/genetic info of WSB with another organism to produce an avant, transgenic mutation” and here’s how… Read more »
Even the hippies thought William S. Burroughs was weird. See the granddaddy of beat/junky wiseman from the inside out in the new doc William S. Burroughs: A Man Within released by Beastie Boy Adam Yauch, w/rare footage of Burroughs shooting the shit out of shit. Read more »
Fantagraphics announces: A long-lost comic strip by the transgressive literary antihero William S. Burroughs and British artist Malcolm McNeill will be unleashed on society. Burroughs’ only, the Ah Pook Is Here comic strip was first published as a 120-page “word/picture” foldout book in Cyclops mag and was far ahead of its time. Read more »
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