William S. Burroughs - Profile and Interview BBC Radio . William S. Burroughs' haunting tape cut-ups get first ever vinyl release. The influential recordings have never been this widely available.
William S. Burrough’s iconic tape experiments will be collected and released on vinyl for the first time as Curse Go Back, a new compilation due August 29th through Paradigm Discs. Though Burroughs is best known for novels like Junkie and Naked Lunch, he also popularized the cut-up technique where a writer constructs new texts out of previously cut up words and phrases.
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I can't imagine William S Burroughs saying anything so anodyne as he extended his bony hand to be shaken. Those who knew him called him other things. William Burroughs - a picture from the past. Junky and William Burroughs' oblique moral vision. Early on in an interview with the Paris Review, William Burroughs speaks about the process of writing Junky and his thoughts on the end results: "I didn't feel compelled.
I had nothing else to do. Writing gave me something to do every day. I don't feel the results were at all spectacular. Junky is not much of a book, actually. I knew very little about writing at that time. " Personally, I read plenty of compulsion in this vivid catalogue of withdrawal and fix, scores and sales. Where I would dare to argue with Burroughs is in the notion that Junky is not much of a book. The cat screamed and clawed me, then started spraying piss all over my pants. It's apparently dispassionate, superficially funny – but essentially horrific. It's good, in short. When Junky was first published (as Junkie), it came packaged in caveats and obfuscations to blunt the sharpness of its attack. Worried indeed. The book actually has a distinct, not to mention, distinctive morality. Burroughs, Lynch and Warhol: the secret photographers. William S Burroughs: the naked photographer.
There are many things that spring to mind when you think of William Burroughs: the lifelong heroin addiction; the love of guns that led to him killing his second wife in a drunken game of William Tell; the wildly chaotic beat lifestyle that informed his literary style.
One thing that you probably don't immediately think of is the best way to arrange chrysanthemums. Yet a new exhibition devoted to the photography of Burroughs reveals several sides to the writer that are rarely included in the wildman mythology. Indeed, Taking Shots (you can probably see what they've done there) explores the idea of Burroughs not just as a photographer in his own right, but as a complex artist with ideas that are often extremely personal. Flowers is a case in point: a series of photographs in which a pink rose protrudes from a chrome Coca-Cola bottle.
Gysin is famous for inventing, with Burroughs's help, the "cut-up" technique, used in the writer's masterpiece Naked Lunch. 97 Things You Didn’t Know About William S. Burroughs. Pinterest. This is my last visit. In 1966, a few months after first being serialised in The New Yorker, Truman Capote's genre-defining non-fiction novel, In Cold Blood — the true story of a quadruple murder in 1959 that Capote investigated, and the subsequent trial he attended — was published to much acclaim.
The praise wasn't universal, however. The great William Burroughs wrote the following fascinating and damning letter to Capote in 1970. If, after reading this letter, you're looking for more context, I strongly suggest reading this article at RealityStudio. Allen Ginsberg’s Hand-Annotated Photos of the Beat Generation. Disappointed by the On the Road movie?
Don’t worry, you’re not alone. Luckily, NYU’s Grey Art Gallery is offering a far superior option for those in search of an inside glimpse at how the Beat Generation lived. Beginning January 15, New Yorkers can visit the gallery’s Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg to peruse a selection of 110 photos taken (and often captioned by hand) by none other than Allen Ginsberg. From a shot of Jack Kerouac’s muse, Neal Cassady, and “his love of the year” snuggling under a cinema marquee advertising a Brando triple feature to a solemn photo of William S. Burroughs at the Met, the annotated images provide a personal, visual scrapbook of Ginsberg’s life in the 1950s and beyond. RealityStudio. William s. burroughs - what washington what orders. William S. Burroughs - LAST WORDS OF HASSAN SABBAH.
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Burroughs (1914-1997) William S. Burroughs Sings (with Kurt Cobain, REM, Laurie Anderson & more) William S. Burroughs reads Junky, written 1953 [hide/show playlist] Real English Tea Made Here It's An Experiment 0:44 Cut-Ins With Dutch Schultz 17:32 Recorded in New York City, circa summer 1965. 23 Skidoo 6:14 Recorded at Burroughs' loft at 210 Center Street in Lower Manhattan, June 1965. An invisible hand presses the record button on the radio, then stops: advertisements vying with weather reports for the New York area are intercut with news stories about death in its various forms – murder, plane crashes, foreign wars. Recorded in 1965, the 33-minute ‘Puertos De Los Santos’ is one of the rare and previously unreleased William S.
These tapes were recorded as an extension of the cut-up method that Burroughs and Brion Gysin had been applying in print since the very late 1950s and were still working on in the mid-’60s. There is a direct link between these tapes and pop music. Notes. 36, William S. Burroughs. Firecrackers and whistles sounded the advent of the New Year of 1965 in St.
Louis. Stripteasers ran from the bars in Gaslight Square to dance in the street when midnight came. Burroughs, who had watched television alone that night, was asleep in his room at the Chase Park Plaza Hotel, St.