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19 Jun 2014:
Serial killers to gangsters, crimes of passion to cold-blooded poisoners, fictional or real, name your songs about an act most foul, says Peter Kimpton
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Quiz,
27 May 2014:
On the 'outlaw' author's anniversary, we bring you in for questioning about literature's extremists
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2 Apr 2014:
Long before craftsters turned scrapbooking into a billion-dollar
industry, everyone from William Burroughs to Gerhard Richter used them
as tiny canvases to work on their ideas. A new exhibition, Paperwork,
is devoted to these masterpieces in miniature
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28 Feb 2014: What the critics thought of William S Burroughs: A Life by Barry Miles, Balancing Act by Joanna Trollope, The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
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25 Feb 2014:
Sam Jordison: Junky raises as many questions as the life of its author. A world-renowned Burroughs expert will be joining us this Friday to answer some of them
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21 Feb 2014:
And 'unpleasant slug' or the Leon Trotsky of counterculture? The jury was out in this entertaining reflection on William Burroughs' life and career, presented by Iggy Pop
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18 Feb 2014:
Sam Jordison: Narcotic Agent, the undercover policeman's memoir, originally published back-to-back with Junky, is an intriguing reverse angle on addiction
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11 Feb 2014:
Sam Jordison: Its apparently impassive descriptions of a heroin addict's life still lay out rights and wrongs pretty plainly
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9 Feb 2014:
A vivid new biography of the beat wild man recasts him as a vitriolic vaudeville performer haunted by the killing of his wife, writes Peter Conrad
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Quiz,
5 Feb 2014:
It's 100 years since the birth of American literature's most notorious son. Find out here if you're on the Beat or out to Naked Lunch
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Gallery (17 pictures),
5 Feb 2014:
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 life
Will Self on Burroughs
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5 Feb 2014:
The legendary avant-garde writer of the beat generation was born 100 years ago today
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5 Feb 2014:
From a plaid shirt and brogues to view William Burroughs' photographs to leather trousers and ballet flats for Bailey's Stardust, we show you how to look the part on the cultural trail
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3 Feb 2014: This month, our look at the avant-garde legend will be based on his more or less conventional autobiographical novel
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1 Feb 2014:
On the centenary of William Burroughs' birth, Will Self on why he was the perfect incarnation of late 20th‑century western angst – self-deluded, narcissistic yet perceptive about the sickness of the world
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