William Burroughs

April 10, 2025

The Making of a Madman Mystic

Let’s set the scene: it’s 1959, and a strange, jagged book called Naked Lunch is carving up the American literary landscape like a junk-sick surgeon. The author? William S. Burroughs—a man who never fit the mould, and never wanted to. Burroughs, a Harvard-educated son of a wealthy family who favoured back-alley dealers...

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April 1, 2025

The Cut-Up Machine

A poet walks into a Parisian café carrying scissors and a stack of yesterday’s newspapers. He slices through headlines, obituaries, war reports, and weather blurbs, scattering words like tarot cards across the table. He isn’t interested in what was written but in what could be—what hidden messages lie in the shuffled fragments...

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