William S. Burroughs

The pleasures and complexities of the literature of the Beats

Some sixty years after the appearance of their most famous books, the Beat Generation writers are certainly not hurting for fans or publicity. In 2001, the literary world was rocked by the sale of the original “scroll” manuscript of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road (the one he had written in three weeks on a 120-foot […]

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