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Summer Membership Drive 2010: True Confessions

5074 days ago
KEXP SeattleTrue confessions? I prefer to write a blog with a gin and tonic at my elbow. It makes me feel like Henry Miller or William S. Burroughs. If they drank when they wrote, I know it would be whiskey, but a girl can dream. I like feeling like them — kin... more info

wednesday afternoon updates

5076 days ago
Totally FuzzyRecord Fiend said... Frank Stokes' Dream: The Memphis Blues 1927-1931 (another first-rate early Yazoo album featuring material by Frank Stokes [obviously], Furry Lewis, Cannon's Jug Stompers, Memphis Minnie, Tom Dickson, Noah Lewis, Will Weldon, and ... more info

Yauch to release Burroughs film

5078 days ago
Jam! Showbiz Music, CanadaAiling Beastie Boys star Adam Yauch has acquired the rights to release a new documentary about influential writer and counter-culture icon William S. Burroughs. more info

Beastie Boys - Cancer Fighter Yauch To Release Burroughs Film

5078 days ago
ContactMusicAiling BEASTIE BOYS star ADAM YAUCH has acquired the rights to release a new documentary about influential writer and counter-culture icon WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS.The... more info

Sonic Youth, Patti Smith Soundtrack William S. Burroughs Documentary

5081 days ago
PitchforkIndie Wire reports that a new documentary about the genius of revolutionary writer William S. Burroughs called A Man Within is set to feature a soundtrack by Sonic Youth and Patti Smith. Interviewees in the doc include Iggy Pop, Smith, Thurston Moore... more info

Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch to release documentary about Beat writer William S. Burroughs - video

5082 days ago
NMEThe film features Iggy Pop, Patti Smith and Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo more info

OBITUARY: Peter Orlovsky, Poet and Partner of Allen Ginsberg, Has Died

5084 days ago
All About JazzPeter Orlovsky, longtime partner of Allen Ginsberg and a poet in his own right, died May 30 in Vermont of lung cancer. He was 76. Orlovsky met Ginsberg in San Francisco in 1954, before Ginsberg wrote his seminal poem, "Howl." Published in 1956, "H... more info

WEB/TECH: William Burroughs-Influenced Artist Builds Online Gallery at Deviantart

5091 days ago
All About JazzA West Los Angeles-based artist pays tribute to William S. Burroughs, King Of The Beat Generation, by creating an online art gallery dedicated to his writing and art. William Burroughs-Influenced Artist Builds Online Gallery at DeviantArt; Compilati... more info

Shorties (Regina Spektor Covers Radiohead, William S. Burroughs, and more)

5118 days ago
LargeHeartedBoyStream Regina Spektor's cover of Radiohead's "No Surprises." A collection of William S. Burroughs book covers. The Observer notes the importance of translators to literary fiction. Express Night Out profiles the television series Dinner with the Band... more info

Steve Buscemi To Direct An Adaptation of William S. Burroughs' 'Queer' Written by 'The Messenger' Scribe Oren Moverman

5128 days ago
The PlaylistWe initially included this bit of news at the end of a relatively just-published story about "The Messenger" director Oren Moverman directing an upcoming crime drama "Rampart," which may reunite him with cast members of that film, Ben Foster and ... more info

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