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William S. Burroughs

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Writer characterized as a fake macho guy who became a degenerate drug addict to compensate for lack of seafaring experience

Mentions (7)
"I guess the fake macho guys of the 40s and 50s (Kerouac, Burroughs, Bukowski) tried to compensate by becoming degenerate drug addicts or temporary hobos, but that's long gone."
The decline of seafaring travel has been a disaster for literature · u/LeonidKrasinsBalls · ↑431 · 2023-09-19
"L-R Yukio Mishima, Tennessee Williams, Patricia Highsmith, Françoise Sagan, Charles Bukowski, Ursula Le Guin, Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Edward Gorey, Doris Lessing, Williams.S.Burroughs, Ernest Hemingway, Haruki Murakami"
20th Century Writers and their Cats · u/Visual-Specialist610 · ↑104 · 2024-01-26
"Adapted from William S. Burroughs' novella *Blade Runner (a movie)* **after the movie was shot**, TAKING TIGER MOUNTAIN is kind of a mess, but it's a bizarre, hypnotic, experimental mess that grabs your attention and refuses to let it go."
"I've been reading a lot of the beat era literature. I love Ginsberg and Burroughs but I can't seem to really get into Kerouac."
What am I missing with Jack Kerouac? · u/Mental_Tale_8908 · ↑47 · 2024-07-18
"I very much know this isn't even remotely a particularly new or revolutionary idea and already DFW, Baudrillard, Neil Postman, William S. Burroughs, Marshall McLuhan and probably twelve dozen other people have written about this in some form over the last 60 or so years"
"I love Ginsberg and Burroughs but I can't seem to really get into Kerouac."
What am I missing with Jack Kerouac? · u/Mental_Tale_8908 · ↑47 · 2024-07-18
"I very much know this isn't even remotely a particularly new or revolutionary idea and already DFW, Baudrillard, Neil Postman, William S. Burroughs, Marshall McLuhan and probably twelve dozen other people have written about this in some form over the last 60 or so years"
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