Notorious for his drug-fuelled literary experiments and the fact that he shot his partner, beat writer Burroughs also made art inspired by the climate crisis.

In the late months of 1949, aspiring American writer William S Burroughs ... matter of separating art from artist – Vollmer’s shooting and the writing were, for Burroughs at least, two sides ...

The impulse behind anti-art ... Burroughs takes himself with a complete, owlish seriousness. Like most English people of my generation, I first heard of Miller through Orwell’s essay, and ...

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 ...

William S. Burroughs, also known as William Seward Burroughs II, was an influential American figure associated with the Beat Generation and postmodernism. His visual art has been exhibited at ...

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