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The author of Naked Lunch was born 100 years ago today. From his friendships with Beat authors such as Kerouac and Ginsberg, to his meetings with Dennis Hopper and Sting, browse images from a long and disreputable lifeWill Self on BurroughsJoin our Reading group to discuss Junky

Jack Black was a burglar, rambler, jailbird and writer whose lone published memoir, You Can’t Win (1926), was an important early influence on William S. Burroughs and, through him, the other Beat writers. With a

William Burroughs photographed by Loomis Dean, Paris 1959

Extracts from a Journal, 1958 by Gael Turnbull Vacationing in Paris in the summer of 1958, the Scottish poet Gael ...

Ruby Ray’s new photo book, “Kalifornia Kool,” depicts the San Francisco punk scene between 1976 and 1982. She says it “was bold and daring and wild.”

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A new side to his provocative art goes on show this week for ten days only

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