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Under the Counterculture: An Interview with Leon Horton
By Michael Limnios Leon Horton is a UK-based countercultural writer, editor, and interviewer. He is the editor of the acclaimed essay/memoir collection, Gregory Corso: Ten Times a Poet (Roadside Press, 2024), and recently completed a long-form interview with author Victor Bockris for the forthcoming publication, The Burroughs-Warhol Connection (Beatdom Books, 2025). His writing has been…
Dia 26: La Bestia
Practica de Dibujo Digital!!
Saturday would have been Truman Capote’s 93rd birthday, which seems as good an excuse as any to revisit this bizarre and mean and strangel
READ WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS’S HATE LETTER TO TRUMAN CAPOTE
CAN ONE WRITER CURSE ANOTHER FOR LIFE?
Burroughs and Capote, Aleister Crowley and William Butler Yeats, Alan Moore and Grant Morrison - all of my favorite literary beefs involve a hex of some sort.
"In the below letter, Burroughs engages in a sort of bizarre role-play, claiming (it seems) to speak for a department responsible for the cosmic fate of writers. He tells Capote that he has been following him closely, reading his works, his reviews, and his actions, even interviewing his characters, and that he has decided to withdraw the talent given to him by the department and curse him to never write anything good again—as if he were a minor god of creative action, or king of the muses. Robinson points out that Burroughs actually believed in curses at this time, and maybe he was right, because his damning words came true—he never wrote anything good again."
"... You have betrayed and sold out the talent that was granted you by this department. That talent is now officially withdrawn. Enjoy your dirty money. You will never have anything else. You will never write another sentence above the level of In Cold Blood. As a writer you are finished. Over and out. Are you tracking me? Know who I am? You know me, Truman. You have known me for a long time. This is my last visit."
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation' - creative viewing.
- William S. Burroughs
When you hear people talk about The Beats, it’s typically Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg mentioned first and most frequently, but it was William S. Burroughs who was on the cover of Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. It was the cut-up method, a writing technique that he and Brion Gyson developed, that inspired and was adapted by David Bowie, Kurt Cobain, Joy Division, Iggy Pop and used throughout the entirety of Radiohead’s Kid A.
“My lyrics are total cut-up. I take lines from different poems that I’ve written. I build on a theme if I can, but sometimes I can’t even come up with an idea of what the song is about.” http://www.jimdero.com/News2001/GreatOct21Nirvana.htm
- Kurt Cobain
Fantastic listen here below - BBC Documentary/podcast about Burroughs that aired on This American Life (narrated by Iggy Pop)
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/546/burroughs-101
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