"Could you tell me where William Burroughs used to live ... various graves of various cats; an old car (a Datsun?) abandoned on the grass. The yard was lush and shady, in sharp contrast to ...

William S. Burroughs’ ability to survive hell and reach the age of 80 is so strange that some people think he has eaten of an obscure South American plant that guarantees immortality.

William S Burroughs, one third of the Beat generation’s literary tripartite (with Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac), is the subject of a new feature-length documentary, screened this week at the ...

It’s an ending that deviates from and expands upon author William S. Burroughs’ source material, but one that sticks close to the Beat author’s actual biography. In the movie, Allerton ...

NAKED LUNCH (255 pp.)—William Burroughs—Grove ($6). The Young American Disaffiliates (they used to be called beats, but nothing stays simple) have not done well. In matters of finance this is ...

Daniel Craig, shifting about a dozen gears from James Bond, doesn’t make the mistake of impersonating the older William Burroughs who became a punk icon in the ’80s: the dry voice, the beady ...