William S. Burroughs
PHOTOS: Lunch on the Port of Tangier, 'Naked Lunch' Style
We travelled to Morocco to follow in the footsteps of William S. Burroughs.
How Composer Howard Shore Brought the Sounds of Tangier to William S. Burroughs' ‘Naked Lunch’
Mondo will bring three Shore scores from David Cronenberg films to vinyl this summer.
Worship at Genesis Breyer P-Orridge's Cut-Up Altar
Musician and art provocateur takes a transcendently spiritual turn in the exhibition ‘Try to Altar Everything’.
Making a Film Inside William Burroughs' Secretive Bunker on the Bowery
In Uncle Howard, Aaron Brookner embarks on a mission to reclaim the lost negative of his uncle's famed doc on William Burroughs with the help of Jim Jarmusch and other New York icons.
Charles Gatewood's Legendary Images of America's Seedy Underbelly
In advance of an exhibition of his work in San Francisco, here's a selection of photos from one of America's preeminent documentarians of the weird.
My Life Began with David Bowie
Let me begin with a rather embarrassing confession: No person has given me greater pleasure throughout my life than David Bowie.
Quirky Dickheads Ruined William Burroughs's 100th Birthday Party
When I heard that something called Guerrilla Zoo was going to recreate a party in the "Interzone" to celebrate Burroughs's birthday, I thought it would be impossible, thanks to legalities and common decency. But I didn't want to write them off without...
Photographing San Francisco Punk with Ruby Ray
Ruby Ray, whose photos were featured in the legendary zine Search and Destroy back in the 1970s, documented the disenfranchised punk world of San Francisco at exactly the right moment. Now, three and a half decades later, her photos are gaining...
The Cat Offers Itself
While William S. Burroughs is increasingly regarded as one of the most important writers of the 20th century, but his artistic genius is often overshadowed by tales of his outlaw lifestyle. Of all the wild stories in Burroughs’s life, the best (and...