Here’s what happened when writer Terry Southern and photographer Michael Cooper flew in to cover it—with William S. Burroughs and Jean Genet along for the ride.
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Five low-budget (but still amazing) science-fiction films
These five films prove that sci-fi can thrive without big budgets.
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Cosmic Body: a trance-inducing dance experience, sans the purple haze
Norwegian choreographer Ingri Fiksdal brings her trippy quartet Cosmic Body to the MCA this weekend.
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Good old Bill, good old Bob, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Burroughs lays bare the notorious author of Naked Lunch
This 1983 documentary gets Burroughs right between the eyes.
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M Is for Mimicry, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Comma ‘gain? A troubling inconsistency at U. of C.
Punctuation inconsistency besets University of Chicago.
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Video Drone: What Happened to Kerouac?
A wealth of newly released interview footage gives a kaleidoscopic sense of the Beat Generation’s legacy
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Weird things customers say in bookstores, another blog-based book, and Seminary Co-op on the move
Two new books on books, both based on blogs, and the Seminary Co-op gets a new home
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12 O’Clock Track: Steven “Jesse” Bernstein, “No No Man (Part Two)”
A posthumous 1992 release by Seattle poet Steven “Jesse” Bernstein, the anti-Thax Douglas
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Beaten to death
Alan Governar’s The Beat Hotel revisits the Paris adventures of Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and William S. Burroughs
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Best of 2011, number 7: The Elephant in the Living Room
J.R. Jones on The Elephant in the Living Room, his number 7 movie of 2011.
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Morning Art: William S. Burroughs
Part of a show of work by William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, on display at ThinkArt.