William S. Burroughs’ ability to survive hell and reach the age of 80 is so strange that some ... William S. Burroughs is a poet and a prophet as well as a criminal.

In ’93, Nirvana’s tour manager Alex MacLeod drove Cobain over to meet Burroughs in Kansas around the start of Nirvana‘s In Utero tour. “Meeting William was a real big deal for him,” said ...

The Beat writer William S. Burroughs began his second book, Queer, just months after killing his wife, Joan Vollmer, at a party above the Bounty Bar in Mexico City. Though he completed the novella ...

The dark side of William Burroughs, wife killer behind Daniel Craig’s Queer The renowned author murdered his wife before going on to become one of America’s most influential figures in literature.

A curator and confidant of the late William S Burroughs has said the writer and artist “broke down sobbing” when recalling the death of his partner. In 1951, Burroughs shot dead his common-law ...

Luca Guadagnino understands the poetry of human bodies in motion, ... William S. Burroughs was one of the principal figures associated with the Beat movement of the 1950s and 60s.

The swan-song symbolism of this final moment of a love unrealized, as outlandishly dreamy as it may seem, actually draws on William S. Burroughs' own story, and how he unintentionally murdered his ...