William S. Burroughs Birthday Bash

Nov 1, 2014

1h 25m

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Overview

To celebrate the 100th birthday of America's most audacious writer, William S. Burroughs, Chicago Humanities Festival brings together a motley crew of poets, writers, and musicians. William Seward Burroughs (1914 - 1997) was an American writer and visual artist. He was a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author whose influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature. Burroughs's needs took him across the United States, down into Mexico, to Europe and beyond. On his travels, he meets up with various members of the underground drug and "outcast" cultures.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Chicano Humanities Festival

Lake Forest College

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Cast

Presenter

Alison Cuddy

Writer/Organizer

Davis Schneiderman

Musician

Sally Timms

Poet

Anne Waldman

Poet

Eileen Myles

Composer

Daniel M. Knox

Musician/Writer

Sasha Frere-Jones

Filmmaker

Thomas Cornerford

Teacher/Poet

Tony Trigilio

Performer

Richard Pettengill

Performer

Don Meyer

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