William S. Burroughs, the maverick writer, artist, and cultural provocateur whose work defied convention, reshaping the ...

8.1 x 12.9 cm. (3.2 x 5.1 in.) ...

Joan Vollmer in an undated photo taken by Allen Ginsberg [Courtesy of the Ginsberg Estate] If, like so many Americans today, William Burroughs possessed a toxic affinity for firearms, he – again ...

In the late months of 1949, aspiring American writer William S ... literary brilliance, Burroughs was also a fragile “megalomaniac” (his word, used in a letter to Ginsberg) who carried a ...

William S. Burroughs, also known as William Seward Burroughs II ... He lived in Lawrence, Kansas, United States and was educated at Harvard University, Cambridge, and medical school in Vienna. Among ...

Payal Kapadia’s Cannes Grand Prix–winning story of three hard-working women in Mumbai, and Luca Guadagnino’s steamy ...

In 1952, William S. Burroughs wrote an autobiographical ... the U.S. and then South America — where he corresponded with Allen Ginsberg with “The Yage Letters,” published in 1963.