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William S. Burroughs Links
Quality Links Selected by Hand!Updated 6 July 2007 Sites with Burroughs Texts Collaboration with Keith Haring An official version of "Apocalypse," a collaboration between Burroughs and Keith Haring, can be found at haring.com. Also online is another collaboration called "The Valley." Burroughs on photographer Gottfried Helnwein "How can a self-portrait depict statuesque calm in the face of the horrors that surround us all?" Burroughs Letter to the Editor Brief letter from Burroughs to the New [...]
Sites with Names Inspired by William S. Burroughs
Updated 8 September 2005 If you ever needed any further proof of the extent to which William S. Burroughs — avant-garde author, drug addict, homosexual, petty criminal, and parttime exterminator — has penetrated popular culture, you need look no further than the incredible number of web sites that have been named after him. There are sites that use his name, his book titles, key phrases from his writings. The sheer number of Burroughs-inspired domain names is astonishing and makes you wonder if he might not be one of the single greatest sources of URL inspiration on the web. Probably few [...]
William S. Burroughs News Archive
Archive of News Related to William S. Burroughs Big Bucks for Beat Auction The San Francisco Chronicle has a wrap-up of the recent Edwin Blair auction of Beat literature, reporting that it raised almost a quarter of a million dollars. The article details how Mr. Blair was actually selling his collection to raise money for Gypsy Lou Webb, who published some of Charles Bukowski's earliest works. Apparently her home was devastated by hurricane Katrina. Also see Jed Birmingham's overview of the Edwin Blair Auction. — March 2006 New York [...]
Cut-Outs and Cut-Ups: Hans Christian Andersen and William Seward Burroughs
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 9 April - 29 June 2008 The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin is currently organising an important exhibition focusing on the cut-outs and cut-ups of Hans Christian Andersen and William Seward Burroughs, which is scheduled to take place at the Irish Museum of Modern Art from 9th April 2008 to 29 June 2008 and will be curated by Hendel Teicher. Following its premiere in Dublin, the exhibition will travel to museums in Europe and the United States. Entitled Cut-Outs and Cut-Ups: Hans Christian Andersen and William Seward Burroughs, the exhibition will [...]