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...Walker Evans combed the country, assembling evidence of a society shot through with disarray and stoic promise....
...The couple were living there in 1951 when Burroughs shot and killed Vollmer during a drunken game....
...course, a sizeable Greek-interest section, including beautiful cloth-covered editions of The Odyssey (€22) – “on an island in Greece, it makes perfect sense,” says Walzer. atlantisbooks.org Christina Ohly Evans...
...On my bedside table among a pile of other books — Mary Gaitskill, James Baldwin, William Burroughs (yikes!)...
...… William S Burroughs: A Life, by Barry Miles, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, RRP£30 This scholarly biography of Burroughs by his friend argues that the writer was driven by his wife’s death....
...Thayil deftly weaves the various narrative threads, and his overheated, hypertrophied prose invites comparison with the greatest of all narco-novels: William Burroughs’ Naked Lunch....
...At once fluent and formal, candidly instantaneous and rigorously precise, Evans can transform a street corner into something monumental or invite us – “Fireplace in Bedroom, Burroughs Family Cabin”, “Sick...
...In a show that contrasts many pictures of great skill and great emotional power – I have not mentioned a first-rate group of Walker Evans pictures – there is more than enough to admire....
...It’s one of Paul Evans’ harsher works, a 12ft-long console in bronze.” Kravitz, who has placed “The Monster” at the top of a limestone staircase in his Paris townhouse, agrees that it is a true star....
...This is Gary Larson country, mixed with outtakes from Dostoevsky and Burroughs. It is hard to know where art begins and life, or living death, ends....
...The two had met while working at Burroughs, a computer company which later became part of Unisys, and had remarkably similar ideas about the sort of company they wanted to run....
...This one is unbearable, unwearable, and based on the new-to-me memoirs of Augusten Burroughs....
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