William S. Burroughs

The Beat Hotel

Fairy Tale Ending: Downtown Filmmaker Sara Driver's Lost Film, Found

12 Tracks, Two And A Half Hours: Sound Of The City's Mixtape Of Long Rap Songs

Last week, the new Gorillaz track "DoYaThing" dropped. It's long—a full 13-minutes and some seconds of music, a lot of which involves Andre 3000 getting frenzied and inspired with that rapping thing he does so well. With "DoYaThing" and persistent talk about Outkast reunion rumors bedazzling u ... More >>

William S. Burroughs: A Man Within Strokes the Myth

Last week, the new Gorillaz track "DoYaThing" dropped. It's long—a full 13-minutes and some seconds of music, a lot of which involves Andre 3000 getting frenzied and inspired with that rapping thing he does so well. With "DoYaThing" and persistent talk about Outkast reunion rumors bedazzling u ... More >>

Stonewall: Gay Power Comes to Sheridan Square

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 3, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 38 Gay Power Comes To Sheridan Square by Lucian Truscott IV Sheridan Square this weekend looked like something from a William Burroughs novel as the sudden specter of "gay power" erected its brazen head and ... More >>

A REAL CUT-UP

Explore the genius of Brion Gysin

Allen Ginsberg Explains Timothy Leary

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 12, 1968, Vol. XIV, No. 9 Remarks on Leary's Politics of Ecstasy by Allen Ginsberg By the late '40s of this memory Century the people I knew best and loved the most had already broken through the crust of old Reason & were dow ... More >>

William Burroughs Got His First Morphine Hit from This Guy

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. September 21, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 49 Huncke the Juncke: Godfather to Naked Lunch By Don McNeill My phone rang on a hot morning in July a year ago and it as Allen Ginsberg. "Do you know Herbert Huncke?" Ginsberg asked. "Have you ever m ... More >>

Clip Job: Newfield Makes the Case for Bob Dylan

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 26, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 15 Brecht of the Juke Box, Poet of the Electric Guitar By Jack Newfield Norman Morrison burned himself to death to protest the Vietnam war, and when reporters visited his spare room they saw quotes fro ... More >>

Haxan

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 26, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 15 Brecht of the Juke Box, Poet of the Electric Guitar By Jack Newfield Norman Morrison burned himself to death to protest the Vietnam war, and when reporters visited his spare room they saw quotes fro ... More >>

Clip Job: Newfield Surveys the Folk-Music Revolution!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesJanuary 14, 1965, Vol. X, No. 13Blowin' in the Wind: A Folk-Music RevoltBy Jack NewfieldOn the frontier of every art form guerilla bands of prophets and crackpots are nourishing the orthodoxies and fashions of tomorrow.A decade ago the frontie ... More >>

Naked Lunch

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesJanuary 14, 1965, Vol. X, No. 13Blowin' in the Wind: A Folk-Music RevoltBy Jack NewfieldOn the frontier of every art form guerilla bands of prophets and crackpots are nourishing the orthodoxies and fashions of tomorrow.A decade ago the frontie ... More >>

DIVINE MADNESS

John Waters discusses his new art exhibit

Today William Burroughs Would've Turned 95: Watching Gus Vant Sant's "Do Easy"

William Burroughs was born 95 years ago today. King Junk, as Dennis Cooper once called him. Kerouac's Old Bull Lee, Van Sant's junkie priest, cyberpunk godfather, punk ancestor, and benevolent spirit to many more. Above is Van Sant's "Do Easy," a short film adapted from Burroughs's essay of the sa ... More >>

Clip Job: Beyond the Beats

William Burroughs was born 95 years ago today. King Junk, as Dennis Cooper once called him. Kerouac's Old Bull Lee, Van Sant's junkie priest, cyberpunk godfather, punk ancestor, and benevolent spirit to many more. Above is Van Sant's "Do Easy," a short film adapted from Burroughs's essay of the sa ... More >>

Retro Man

William Burroughs was born 95 years ago today. King Junk, as Dennis Cooper once called him. Kerouac's Old Bull Lee, Van Sant's junkie priest, cyberpunk godfather, punk ancestor, and benevolent spirit to many more. Above is Van Sant's "Do Easy," a short film adapted from Burroughs's essay of the sa ... More >>

Retro Man

William Burroughs was born 95 years ago today. King Junk, as Dennis Cooper once called him. Kerouac's Old Bull Lee, Van Sant's junkie priest, cyberpunk godfather, punk ancestor, and benevolent spirit to many more. Above is Van Sant's "Do Easy," a short film adapted from Burroughs's essay of the sa ... More >>

Dennis Cooper

William Burroughs was born 95 years ago today. King Junk, as Dennis Cooper once called him. Kerouac's Old Bull Lee, Van Sant's junkie priest, cyberpunk godfather, punk ancestor, and benevolent spirit to many more. Above is Van Sant's "Do Easy," a short film adapted from Burroughs's essay of the sa ... More >>

J. Hoberman: The Naked Truth

On the occasion of a BAM tribute to our man, a look back

Where the Wild Things Are

On the occasion of a BAM tribute to our man, a look back

Red Carpet Treatment

On the occasion of a BAM tribute to our man, a look back

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Artist

If there's no iconic image, does an artist's work risk becoming fuzzy in the mind?

Letters

If there's no iconic image, does an artist's work risk becoming fuzzy in the mind?

The Last Days of Loserville

Once home to hustlers, drunks, and bohemians, America's slummiest street has turned into a new millionaire's row

Buried Love

From sipping iced tea and playing Al Green to imagining you're watching Ricky beat Lucy

What Price Youth?

Native heirloom performers and foreign visitors channeling the Beats lure summer crowds

Beat Happening

Adrift in the valley of lost men, or Ph'nglui mglw'nath Jack Kerouac wagn'nagl fhtagn

Requiem For A Nightmare

Adam Rapp's druggie two-hander spares no oozing detail

Cereal Killer

Atkins isn't the only reason to be choosy about carb calories

Concerning Sotoligarchy

What happens when the rich and powerful rule the stupid? It's called America.

Photo Shop

What happens when the rich and powerful rule the stupid? It's called America.

Our Old Friend

From Rent Boys to Weathergirls

Crib Notes

From Rent Boys to Weathergirls

Horoscope

From Rent Boys to Weathergirls

Word Play

Avant-Garde Poet Brion Gysin Resurrected

Textual Healing

Avant-Garde Poet Brion Gysin Resurrected

Horoscope

Avant-Garde Poet Brion Gysin Resurrected

Rekall Yr Idols

Avant-Garde Poet Brion Gysin Resurrected

Bard Wired

25 Years (and Counting) of Nuyorican Poet’s Café

Spring Bouquet

All Kinds of Dances Bloom in April

Kitsch or Kill

All Kinds of Dances Bloom in April

The Most Dangerous Writer In America

Coming to Terms With the Art of Dennis Cooper

The Mountain Men

Coming to Terms With the Art of Dennis Cooper

Casting no doubts

Coming to Terms With the Art of Dennis Cooper

Blast to the Past

Coming to Terms With the Art of Dennis Cooper

All Ears

Coming to Terms With the Art of Dennis Cooper

Under African Skies

Coming to Terms With the Art of Dennis Cooper

The Posthuman Touch

Coming to Terms With the Art of Dennis Cooper

Consumer Guide

Coming to Terms With the Art of Dennis Cooper