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So what or who is ‘Steely Dan’, you might ask? For those of you who haven’t read the meandering, psychotropic book, ‘Steely Dan III from Yokohama’ is the name of an oversized, steam-powered strap-on dildo that is used by Mary during the chapter of the book entitled ‘A.J.’s Annual Party’. Hemmer, Kurt (2009). " "The natives are getting uppity": Tangier and Naked Lunch". In Harris, Oliver; MacFadyen, Ian (eds.). Naked Lunch @ 50: Anniversary Essays. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. pp.65–72. ISBN 978-0-8093-2915-1. Naked Lunchis a postmodern narrative and Burroughs' first attempt at using a nonlinear plot. Heavily inspired by Brion Gynsin's "cut-up technique," in which text is cut up and rearranged to create new sentences, Burroughs claimed that Naked Lunch could be "cut into at any point." The end result is an obscure, long-winded, and downright confusing masterwork which has been hailed as "one of the most important books of the twentieth century." Following is an attempt to summarize some of the book's most important and pertinent events. Timothy S. Murphy, Wising up the marks. University of California Press, 1997. p. 67 ISBN 0-520-20951-6 Newsweek 's David Ansen wrote, "Obviously this is not everybody's cup of weird tea: you must have a taste for the esthetics of disgust. For those up to the dare, it's one clammily compelling movie". [25] Entertainment Weekly gave the film a "B+" rating with Owen Gleiberman praising Weller's performance: "Peter Weller, the poker-faced star of RoboCop, greets all of the hallucinogenic weirdness with a doleful, matter-of-fact deadpan that grows more likable as the movie goes on. The actor's steely robostare has never been more compelling. By the end, he has turned Burroughs' stone-cold protagonist – a man with no feelings – into a mordantly touching hero". [26]

Ballard, J.G. (1991). "Mythmaker of the 20th Century". In Vale; Juno, Andrea (eds.). Re/Search: J.G. Ballard. San Francisco, CA: Re/Search Publications. pp.105–107. ISBN 0-940642-08-5. Burroughs described Vollmer's death as a pivotal event in his life, and one that provoked his writing by exposing him to the risk of possession by a malevolent entity he called "the Ugly Spirit":I will examine the connections between so-called occult phenomena and the creative process. Are not all writers, consciously or not, operating in these areas?" — William S. Burroughs [88] The film has been selected for a Criterion Collection release, an organization that releases high quality Blu-rays and DVDs for important classic and contemporary films. [ citation needed] Accolades [ edit ]

Wain, John (December 1, 1962). "The Great Burroughs Affair". The New Republic . Retrieved 2 July 2023. Italian comics artist Gianluca Lerici, better known under his artistic pseudonym Professor Bad Trip, adapted the novel into a graphic novel titled Il Pasto Nudo (1992), published by Shake Edizioni. [60] Audio versions [ edit ] Born to a wealthy family in Missouri, Burroughs went to Harvard University. His early life seems to have been a sexually confusing time for Burroughs. Initially, he attended the Los Alamos Ranch School in New Mexico, which was a boarding school for wealthy students where – as he put it – “the spindly sons of the rich could be transformed into manly specimens”. This did not go according to plan, however, as his journals indicate that he was sexually attracted to another boy during his time there. Despite subsequently losing his virginity to a female prostitute in a brothel in St Louis, while at Harvard, he made regular trips to New York City, immersing himself in the gay subculture there.

The creation story of the Beats is by now literary boilerplate. Burroughs moved to New York in 1943, along with David Kammerer, a childhood friend who had travelled with him in Europe, and Lucien Carr, an angelically handsome Columbia University student whom Kammerer was stalking. Ginsberg, a fellow-student, was enthralled by Carr, and later dedicated “Howl” to him. Kerouac, who had dropped out of Columbia and served in the Navy, returned to the neighborhood in 1944. With Carr as the catalyst, and Burroughs, whom Kerouac goaded to resume writing, a charismatic presence, the Beat fellowship was complete. Five books have been published of his interviews and correspondences. He also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians, and made many appearance William Seward Burroughs II, (also known by his pen name William Lee) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer. Burroughs was unwavering in his insistence that his writing itself had a magical purpose. [o] [p] [q] [r] [91] This was particularly true when it came to his use of the cut-up technique. Burroughs was adamant that the technique had a magical function, stating "the cut ups are not for artistic purposes". [92] Burroughs used his cut-ups for "political warfare, scientific research, personal therapy, magical divination, and conjuration" [92] – the essential idea being that the cut-ups allowed the user to "break down the barriers that surround consciousness". [93] As Burroughs himself stated:

Alfred de Grazia. "Ed de Grazia: Allen Ginsberg, Norman Mailer, Barney Rosset: Their Struggles Against Censorship Recalled". Grazian-archive.com . Retrieved 2011-06-27. Burroughs clearly indicates here that he prefers to be evaluated against such criteria over being reviewed based on the reviewer's personal reactions to a certain book. Always a contradictory figure, Burroughs nevertheless criticized Anatole Broyard for reading authorial intent into his works where there is none, which sets him at odds both with New Criticism and the old school as represented by Matthew Arnold. He was a voice actor in the 1995 video game The Dark Eye based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe, in which he recites " Annabel Lee".Staff, Flavorwire (February 4, 2011). "97 Things you didn't know about William S. Burroughs". Flavorwire . Retrieved August 14, 2020. Maslin, Janet (27 December 1991). "Drifting in and Out of a Kafkaesque Reality". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 18 November 2010 . Retrieved 1 April 2022. Peter Weller is suitably deadpan, allowing only a sparkle of the playful poet to shine through from time to time (the story about the Duke du Vantra's Espano-Suiza made me howl); he must have spent a few =fun= hours with Burroughs himself to get the role down. Ginsberg, Allen (1963). Reality Sandwiches. San Francisco: City Lights Books. p.40 . Retrieved 4 August 2023. William Seward BurroughsII ( / ˈ b ʌr oʊ z/; February5, 1914 – August2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist. He is widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced popular culture and literature. [2] [3] [4] Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays, and five books have been published of his interviews and correspondences; he was initially briefly known by the pen name William Lee. He also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians, made many appearances in films, and created and exhibited thousands of visual artworks, including his celebrated "Shotgun Art". [5]

Scholarly research has also suggested Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (The Luncheon on the Grass) of 1863 as Burroughs' inspiration for the title. [ citation needed] Political context [ edit ] Terry Southern, left, Allen Ginsberg, William S Burroughs (smoking) and Jean Genet in the audience of the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, on August 28th, 1968. Photograph: Santi Visalli Inc./Getty Images Burroughs originally used the title Interzone for his manuscript. [4] He also considered several titles involving the Sargasso Sea, including Meet Me in Sargasso and The Sargasso Trail, possibly inspired by William Hope Hodgson's Sargasso Sea Stories. [5]

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Calling partisans of all nations—Cut word lines—Shift linguals—Vibrate tourists—Free doorways—Word falling—Photo falling—Break through in Grey Room. a b Seymour, Gene (5 January 1992). "MOVIES: Out to Lunch With the Guru of Gross-Out: David Cronenberg says the only way he could be faithful to William S. Burroughs' celebrated 'Naked Lunch' on film was to betray it". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 10 April 2017 . Retrieved 9 April 2017. Burroughs, William S. (2001). Grauerholtz, James; Miles, Barry (eds.). Naked Lunch (the restored texted.). Grove Press. ISBN 0-8021-4018-1.