Summary: Made up of intimate, revelatory footage of the singular author and poet filmed over the course of five years, Howard Brookner's 1983 documentary about William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch) was for decades mainly the stuff of legend; that changed when Aaron Brookner, the late director's nephew, discovered a print of it in 2011 and spearheaded a restoration. Includes on-screen appearances by Allen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BURBurroughs, William S.
Summary: Explores the life, work, and performance style of writer William S. Burroughs through a series of readings in Scandinavia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Microcinema 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WORBurroughs, William S.
Summary: "On August 14, 1944, Lucien Carr, a friend of William S. Burroughs from St. Louis, stabbed a man named David Kammerer with a Boy Scout knife and threw his body in the Hudson River. For eight years, Kammerer had fawned over the younger Carr, but that night something happened: either Carr had had enough or he was forced to defend himself." "The next day, his clothes stained with blood, Carr went...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Mississippi 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 BURBurroughs, William S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: High Risk Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURBurroughs, William S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seaver Books 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 BURBurroughs, William S.
Contents: William's welcome (What are you here for?) (2:03) -- A Thanksgiving prayer (2:22) -- Naked lunch excerpts (You got any eggs for Fats?) ; Dinner conversation (The snakes) (7:16) -- Ah Pook the destroyer ; Brion Gysin's all purpose bedtime story (2:46) -- After-dinner conversation (An atrocious conceit) ; Where was he going (11:40) -- Kill the badger! (2:42) -- A new standard by which to measure...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BURBurroughs, William S.
Contents: K-9 was in combat with the alien mind-screens (13:29) -- Origin and theory of the tape cut-ups (3:43) -- Recalling all active agents (1:25) -- Silver smoke of dreams (4:50) -- Junky relations (2:56) -- Joujouka (1:30) -- Curse go back (1:12) -- Present time exercises (2:18) -- Joujouka (:43) -- Working with the popular forces (2:37) -- Interview with Mr. Martin (2:59) -- Joujouka (1:26) --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sub Rosa 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN BURBurroughs, William S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2001
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 BURBurroughs, William S.
Summary: Bill Lee, an addict and hustler, travels to Mexico and then Tangier in order to find easy access to drugs, and ends up in the Interzone, a bizarre fantasy world, in an edition that features restored text, archival material, and an essay on psychoactive drugs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURBurroughs, William S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador USA/Holt 2001
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Summary: Presenting a glimpse into the private life of the misunderstood writer, this collection of letters from the 1960s and 1970s reveals the era in which Burroughs became an influential artistic and cultural leader beyond the literary world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 816.54 BURSummary: Filmmaker Chuck Workman explores the lives, works and influence of four leading lights of the "Beat Generation" of the 1950s: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Neal Cassady. Cutting back and forth between archival footage of his subjects and readings of selections from the authors' works, he creates a fast-paced collage of images that show how the Beats became the dominant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2000
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SOUMaterial (Musical group)
Contents: The seven souls (Bill Laswell) (5:47) -- The western lands (Talvin Singh) (6:36) -- The western lands (DJ Soul Slinger) (5:09) -- The road to the western lands (Spring Hill Jack) (6:17) -- Joan's haunted hints at the gate to the western lands (The Audio Janitor) (6:37) -- Seven souls (The secret name) (Bill Laswell) (10:37) -- The western lands (A dangerous road mix) (Material) (8:31).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Triloka/Mercury 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MATSummary: "Experience fifteen years in the life of seminal British artist Ralph Steadman, whose surreal, often confrontational artwork is frequently associated with Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Award-winning docu-drama about the king of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac. Combines rare footage featuring Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and William Burroughs with music by Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington and Zoot Sims.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Goldhil Video 2003
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JACSummary: William Burroughs: the Beats éminence grise, "literary outlaw," culture hero to generations of poets, musicians, artists, and filmmakers who had their minds blown by his 1959 classic, banned-in-America "Naked Lunch." This film covers his life in a straightforward manner, but the portrait drawn is at odds with the character who wrote in outlandish graphic detail about then-forbidden sexuality in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yonilizer Productions 2011
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WILSummary: Part-time pest-control man and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Weller) seeks escape from his troubled existence in 1953 New York and flees to Interzone (a hallucinatory version of Tangiers) where reality and fantasy have merged. It's a strange, surreal landscape inhabited by mugwumps, half-alien, half-insect creatures, man-sized centipedes, carnivorous typewriters and bizarre humans. Compelled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003