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teacher and elder statesman to the Beats: William Burroughs remains one of the most complex and controversial American writers of the twentieth century.

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The Beats. a title that Jack Kerouac coined to define the exhausted exaltation of a generation, produced a body of works infected with a new energy. Their spontaneous, often-unedited style epitomised their own era and their famed close-knit literary community continues to inspire writers today.Barry Miles, friend and biographerof Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, was there , part of the Beat Vibe. here he gathers together som...

Greenwich Village, 6 marzo 1970. Tre esplosioni in rapida sequenza sventrano l'elegante palazzo al numero 18 dell'Undicesima Strada Ovest, dalle fiamme escono, confuse ma illese, due ragazze seminude. Domato l'incendio, le forze dell'ordine trovano in cantina più di sessanta candelotti di dinamite, una bomba anticarro e tutto l'occorrente che sarebbe servito al gruppo terroristico Weather Underground per produrre altri ordigni. È l'atto di nas...

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William Burroughs ha cinque anni quando, seduto con il fratello nella casa di famiglia, scoppia improvvisamente a piangere: "Era come la sensazione disperata e assoluta di essere vulnerabile". William ne è ancora ignaro, ma lo Spirito del Male è già penetrato in lui, entità ostile che lo perseguiterà per tutta la vita. Che studi medicina a Vienna o antropologia ad Harvard, che faccia il disinfestatore a Chicago o si rifugi tra le braccia dell'...

Made a cult figure by the publication of NAKED LUNCH, Burroughs was a mentor to the 1960s youth culture. Underground papers referred to him as 'Uncle Bill' and he ranked alongside Bob Dylan and the Beatles, Buckminster Fuller and R.D. Laing as one of the 'gurus' of the youth movement who might just have the secret of the universe. Based upon extensive research, this biography paints a new portrait of Burroughs, making him real to the reader a...

Fifty years ago Norman Mailer asserted, "William Burroughs is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius." Few since have taken such literary risks, developed such individual ideas, or spanned such a wide range of media. Burroughs was the original cult figure of the beat movement, and with the publication of his novel Naked Lunch, he became a guru to the 60s youth counterculture. Here biographer and beat...

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In March 2013, David Bowie released his first album of 10 years entitled The Next Day. It went straight to number one in the UK album charts. Its first single Where Are We Now was released on the 8th January - Bowie's 66th birthday. A major retrospective of David Bowie is being held at the V&A, museum this Spring. It will feature more than 300 objects including handwritten lyrics, original costumes, fashion, photography, films, videos and inst...

This book starts where Stratton Nottingham left off in his Wills and Administrations of Accomack County, Virginia, 1663-1800. It ends with an administration recorded 30 January 1860 and a will probated 28 January 1861. It also contains a listing of the administrations contained in County Order Book, 1786-1787, which was omitted from Nottingham's book. In addition to the wills and administrations, as contained in Nottingham's book, this compila...

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