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An innovative and controversial author of experimental fiction, William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) is best known for Naked Lunch (1959), a bizarre account of his fourteen-year drug addiction and a surre...
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William Seward Burroughs , poet and novelist, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on 5 February 1914 to parents from two important American families. Burroughs's mother, Laura Lee, was a direct descendan...
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William Seward Burroughs was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, to Perry Mortimer Burroughs, son of the industrialist who invented the cylinder that made the modern adding machine possible, and Laura Lee,...
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Since the publication of Naked Lunch in 1959, William S. Burroughs has been well known as a legendary figure of the Beat Generation and as an important writer of experimental fiction. As a Beat writer...
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Fifty years after Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William S. Burroughs first met in Manhattan, New York University sponsored a conference celebrating the legacy of the Beat Generation. Burroughs, ...
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Critical Essay by William L. Stull
[Burroughs] noted that there is an important difference between Naked Lunch and the books that follow …: his adaptation of the cut-up method of Brion Gysin. T...
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Critical Essay by Paul Ableman
Twenty years ago, William Burroughs published the most brilliant satire in English since Gulliver's Travels. The Naked Lunch, indeed, has many points of similarit...
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Critical Essay by Robert Taubman
It's hard to imagine what once seemed so liberating about The Naked Lunch, a famous cult novel of the Beat generation. A not unsympathetic critic, Leslie Fiedle...
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Critical Essay by John Tytell
I would like to be able to say that Cities Of The Red Night is William Burroughs' most successful fiction since Naked Lunch, that it pushes beyond the kaleidoscopi...
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In the following essay, adapted from a 1974 radio program, Girodias of Olympia Press speaks with William Burroughs, whose controversial novel, Naked Lunch, he published in 1959, and Allen Ginsburg, th...
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In the following essay, Parkinson provides an appreciation of Naked Lunch.
I want to begin by giving a retrospective view of my own relations to Burroughs. First, I saw both the Yage Letters and Naked...
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Critical Essay by William L. Stull
