First half of a William S. Burroughs lecture on creative reading. The lecture mentions a wide variety of authors, including Alistair Crowley, Paul Bowles, and many others. The class also discusses science fiction, non-fiction, general semantics, scriptwriting, cloning, rotten ectoplasm, and judgment in cut-ups, as well as Burroughs's novel, The Soft Machine. (Continues on 79p044.) Keywords: beat movement, experimental literature, consciousness in literature, reality mapping

Addeddate 2004-06-08 11:35:45 Boxid OL100020107 Identifier naropa_william_s_burroughs_class_on5 Numeric_id 5795 Run time 1:36:53 Taped by Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics Type sound