Stickmen With Ray Guns

Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Steam

"...movement was the most outrageously transgressive literary subgenre since William S. Burroughs first noshed on Naked Lunch. Anyone remember..."

April 29, 2011 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, March 22-28

"...AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Controversial author William S. Burroughs was a rough, tough troublemaker. But he..."

March 22, 2024 Column by Rob Brezsny

Johnny Hardwick, the Voice of Dale Gribble, Dies at 64

King of the Hill star was an Austin-made comedy legend

"...Hardwick described the character's look as being inspired by William S. Burroughs and Hunter S. Thompson, and Dale lived..."

Aug. 10, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Faster Than Sound: Nine Records That Inspired Austin Author Fernando A. Flores' Valleyesque

From Pauline Oliveros to Big Boys, sounds behind the surreal South Texas-rooted story collection

"...Flores' new book pairs a quote from canonical outsider William S. Burroughs with a supremely lesser-known figure. A lyric..."

June 3, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Fantasia Review: Lost Boys

Junkie odyssey takes a long, dark trip from Finland to Cambodia

"...way he could possibly have made this film, like William S. Burroughs was the only writer that could have..."

Aug. 13, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

This Week on The Austin Chronicle Show: Pride, and a Lost Nudie Arthouse Film Found

We talk queer rights, Bill Paxton's trippy first movie, and Silver Jews

"...In the second half of the episode, Screens Editor..."

Aug. 9, 2019 News Post by Kimberley Jones

Your Fantasy House

Where reader types would own a vacation home if it could be anywhere in literature

"...Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure by William Goldman. Despite hellish beasts and a conniving aristocracy, there..."

June 17, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

David Bowie’s Auto Memorial: Blackstar

Swan song LP admits “I Can’t Give Everything Away” but almost does

"...the deep end of the pool of incomprehensibility, combining William S. Burroughs’ cut-up technique with Anthony Burgess’ dictionary of..."

Jan. 12, 2016 Music Post by Michael Toland

UT Theatre & Dance's The Wild Party

In this Michael John LaChiusa & George C. Wolfe musical, gin, sin, and skin collide in a debaucherous 1920s requiem to the ego

"...published in 1928 and, according to literary lore, made William S. Burroughs want to become a writer. Its controversial..."

Dec. 4, 2015 Arts Review by Stephanie Carll

What Would Poets Say About What Would I Say?

New Facebook app gets oddly lyrical in its own random ways

"...Google Poetics makes poetry out of Google searches, and William S. Burroughs and others famously used the cut-up technique..."

Nov. 13, 2013 Books Post by Mac McCann

Chelsea Light Moving

"...post-punk guitar god and underrated wordsmith name-checks junky beatnik William S. Burroughs and the late poet Frank O'Hara, but..."

March 15, 2013 Music Review by Dan Oko

The Q&A Hole: What's Your Favorite Book Of All Time?

With Michael Schaub, Kathryn Rogers, Matt Bucher, and more

"...actually a movie version made, with Crispin Glover and William S. Burroughs, called Twister (not the Bill Paxton hurricane..."

Jan. 7, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Everything Went Black: Five Hits From Hell

What to watch this Halloween

"...end of the world arrives. Like a cross between William S. Burroughs and old-time-radio show Arch Obler's Lights Out,..."

Oct. 24, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

There Ain't No Sanity Clause: Nasty Videos for Your Inner Naughty Child

Counter-programming Christmas with bad cheer and body counts

"...you've seen Night of the Living Dead re-conceptualized by William S. Burroughs and J.G. Ballard while all three of..."

Dec. 19, 2011 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Yours Ever: People and Their Letters & Cassette From My Ex: Stories and Soundtracks of Lost Loves

In praise of dead and dying art forms, Parts I and II

"...schoolteachers, the circumspect W.H. Auden and Beats bad boy William S. Burroughs. This is a scenic-byways kind of book:..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Books Review by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Film Review: Pontypool

Pontypool review

"...you've seen Night of the Living Dead re-conceptualized by William S. Burroughs and J.G. Ballard while all three of..."

March 14, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

The Road to Degradation Is Painted Gold

"...of human personality. I admit I went though a William S. Burroughs phase in high school (I may have..."

Oct. 14, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Best American Fantasy

Best American Fantasy replicates the success of the late The Year's Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy series by combing nontraditional genre haunts and delving into mainstream, literary and online magazines

"...1968. Within her anthologies, such authors as John Graves, William S. Burroughs, Donald Barthelme, and Günther Grass routinely appeared..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Books Review by Rick Klaw

Alice in Sunderland

In this epic tale, writer/artist Bryan Talbot draws on centuries of European history and graphic storytelling

"...style, Talbot uses a stream-of-consciousness method owing more to William S. Burroughs than to traditional comics. To further enhance..."

June 1, 2007 Books Review by Rick Klaw

First Snow

A moody thriller that tries to thumb its nose at fatalism, First Snow features another great performance from Guy Pearce.

"...Directed by: Mark Fergus. Starring: Guy Pearce, Piper Perabo, William Fichtner, J.K. Simmons, Shea Whigham, Rick Gonzalez and Jackie..."

April 20, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Irvine Welsh

'Trainspotting,' 10 years later, and a new book

"...like Dante Alighieri's take on The Graduate retooled by William S. Burroughs mainlining Iggy Pop and Lou Reed on..."

Aug. 18, 2006 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Cinemascope

My Education and Cue: the instrumental auteur theory

"...name, and looking at my bookshelf I came across William S. Burroughs' My Education," Purington says. "I thought that..."

July 15, 2005 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...in Bad Lands which also features the likes of William S. Burroughs. She is a good example of a..."

June 14, 2002 Column

SXSW Film Reviews

"...that sounds not unlike the detached Midwestern drone of William S. Burroughs) frames much of the film. Yet when..."

March 16, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Endless Honeymoon

"...(if Clancy were given to hanging with the late William S. Burroughs). Soon enough, FBI Special Agent Mondragon, former..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Books Review by Marc Savlov

How You Became a Criminal

An interview with Canadian documentary filmmaker Ron Mann about his newest film, Grass.

"...people like Tom Waits and Bukowski, John Cage, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Jim Carroll, 24 contemporary poets. As Allen Ginsberg said..."

March 10, 2000 Screens Feature by Nick Barbaro

Spotlights

SXSW Film Festival: Five in Focus

"...as if the director were working in tandem with William S. Burroughs, downloading the late author's mental free-for-all from..."

March 10, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Picks to Snicker

Rich Man, Poor Man, Funny Man, Stephen Root

"...like some comedic equivalent of hometown Heisman hero Ricky Williams -- give him a line or comic bit and..."

April 2, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Texas Platters

"...lyrics that at best read like H.P. Lovecraft and William S. Burroughs doing an opium jam, and at worst..."

Jan. 22, 1999 Music Review by Your Side

Toast to an Artspace About Art

Pro-Jex's Tunnel of Art on Fifth Street Was More Than a Gallery, Much More

"...photos from his personal collection: Seliger's portrait of Robin Williams as a bored, midgeted dandy; an Alan Pogue shot..."

April 3, 1998 Arts Feature by John Spong

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