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3 days ago · Canadian body-horror auteur David Cronenberg stated he decided to “Throw the book away” when he began adapting William S. Burroughs infamous novel Naked Lunch. Written by Burroughs during his time spent in the International Zone in Tangiers, Morocco during the 1950s, Naked Lunch is a disjointed, disturbing novel that was almost banned for obscenity in the United States.
5 days ago · Relationship with William S. Burroughs. Joan Vollmer's relationship with William S. Burroughs was both passionate and tumultuous. Their life together was marked by intense highs and lows. Vollmer met Burroughs in 1944 through mutual friends in the Beat circle. They had a son, William S. Burroughs Jr., born in 1947.
3 days ago · William S. Burroughs (1913-1997), in his tweed suit, reserved manner and Midwest accent, made an unlikely rebel. Born into an affluent family from Missouri, his grandfather was an engineer who made his riches inventing an early form of the calculator.
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3 days ago · Luca Guadagnino adapts William S. Burroughs' novel, Queer, and casts Daniel Craig as Lee, who becomes obsessed with a young Navy officer.
18 hours ago · Irwin Allen Ginsberg (/ ˈɡɪnzbɜːrɡ /; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation.
3 days ago · It’s a romantic drama based on the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by William S. Burroughs, which was written in the early ‘50s but didn’t get published until 1985. Set in the 1940s, Queer stars Daniel Craig as an outcast American expat named William Lee (based on Burroughs himself), who escapes to Mexico City after a drug ...
2 days ago · Moore named William S. Burroughs as one of his main influences during the conception of Watchmen. He admired Burroughs' use of "repeated symbols that would become laden with meaning" in Burroughs' only comic strip, " The Unspeakable Mr. Hart ", which appeared in the British underground magazine Cyclops .
