The author of Naked Lunch was born 100 years ago today. From his friendships with Beat authors such as Kerouac and Ginsberg, to his meetings with Dennis Hopper and Sting, browse images from a long and disreputable lifeWill Self on BurroughsJoin our Reading group to discuss Junky

Photo by Loomis Dean, 1959 © Life Picture Collection * * * Fear and the Monkey This text arranged in my New York loft, which is the converted locker room of an old YMCA. Guests have reported the presence of a ghost boy. So this is a Oui-Ja board poem taken from Dumb Instrument, a book of poems by Denton Welch, and spells and invocations from the Necronomicon, a highly secret magical text released in paperback. There is a pinch of Rimbaud, a dash of St-John Perse, an oblique reference to Toby…

Jack Black was a burglar, rambler, jailbird and writer whose lone published memoir, You Can’t Win (1926), was an important early influence on William S. Burroughs and, through him, the other Beat writers. With a

Writer's life is remembered for unusual, even tragic events.