Tag: William Burroughs

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It's sometimes said that we know less about the ocean than we do about outer space, a palpable nonsense which points to how much of the ocean we have left to explore and pricks at a notion that William Burroughs and plenty other writers or esotericists have plied, which is that to go out and to gain a fuller...

This week on Cultureteca, Katherine Mansfield's short satirical drama 'Stay-Laces', published in The New Age a hundred years ago in early November 1915; the RIBA House of the Year award process gets underway in the United Kingdom on Channel 4; Natalia Stachon's solo exhibition 'Omitted Center' opens at the Loock Galerie in Berlin; and the release of Fallout 4...

In a piece I wrote last month on William Burroughs, and the composition and publication of his 1959 novel Naked Lunch, I noted his defining relationship with the artist Brion Gysin. Burroughs and Gysin met while staying at the 'Beat Hotel' in Paris - which had become a hub for the Beats upon Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky joining...