![]() ![]() Burroughs Word Horde 2.0, considering the potential publishing rights. So if you have $260,000 laying around, you could do worse than invest in the William S. The “word/image novel” predicted the emergence of the ever-popular modern literary genre, the graphic novel. Slated to be published this summer, Ah Pook Is Here is a collaboration between William S. Yony Leyser’s documentary William Burroughs: A Man Within is due on DVD February 15, filled with Burroughs rarities and interviews with everyone from John Waters, Laurie Anderson, and Patti Smith to Gus Van Sant, Iggy Pop, and Thurston Moore. Burroughs would have been 97, but his spirit undoubtedly lives on, with more about him still coming out. His buttoned-up, three-piece exterior cloaked a dark genius that hungered for hustlers and heroin - way back in the 1940s. The author of books like Junky, Queer, and Naked Lunch, Burroughs forged the cornerstone of a modern American cultural movement with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and other visionary writers and artists. ![]() ![]() ![]() Burroughs - who died in 1997 at the age of 83 - continues to be a vital cultural force today. Writer, philosopher, artist, and co-founder of the Beat Generation, William S. ![]()
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