Laurie Anderson chronology. Mister Heartbreak (1984). She had also contributed two pieces to a 1977 compilation of electronic music.

Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson is an American avant-garde artist, composer, musician and film director whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects. She became more widely known outside the art world when her single "O Superman" reached number two on the UK singles chart in 1981.

William S. Burroughs, Lawrence, Kansas. See actions taken by the people who manage and post content. Page created - July 4, 2013.

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Nothing Here Now But The Recordings: Outside The Pier Prowled Like Electric Turtles. I was Traveling Wth The Intolerable Kid On The Nova Lark (From Nova Express). Translucent Boy, An Excellent Time, & For Neal Cassidy. Introduction, Part 1. Much of Burroughs' work is l cut-up stories. He saw all his writing as a single, vast book. He is generally allied with the Beats, and while he was close friends with the true Beats like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, his writing never fit with the Beatnik style. His first couple of novels, Junkie (or Junky) and Queer, were written in a style reminiscent of hard-boiled detective novels. Burroughs is generally considered a novelist. To make the case that he was also a poet is neither revisionist nor perverse but absurd. After all, Burroughs paid about as much obeisance to genre or medium as he did to the law. His work consistently ignored the traditional boundaries between forms of creative production - to the point where, if you were really to collect Burroughs’ poetry, you would be hard-pressed to explain why you might leave out Naked Lunch. It may well be the most poetic text he ever wrote.

There, Burroughs met John and Mary Cooke, a wealthy American hippie couple who were interested in mysticism. Burroughs recalled, "There was something portentous about it, as though I was seeing them in another medium, like they were sitting there as holograms. Only two days later, Burroughs wrote again to Ginsberg: "I have a new method of writing and do not want to publish anything that has not been inspected and processed. I cannot explain this method to you until you have necessary training. Burroughs shortly after shooting his wife Joan Vollmer in the head during a drunken version of William Tell. Were you just drunk Bill or were you on junk too? Back in January of 2013 I decided to reread Naked Lunch. I hadn’t read Burroughs since college so the dim memories of the first read had very little impact on the second reading. It was like (a virgin) reading Burroughs for the very first time again. Allen Ginsberg is the reason the book even exists. He’d been in correspondence with Burroughs and had been impressed by how intelligent and fascinating Bill’s letters were proving to be. Ginsberg insisted that Burroughs needed to thread his life, from those letters, into a book.