Recent posts tagged William S. Burroughs
2021
The Least Weird Guy In The Room
One of the most humbling, and also clarifying, discoveries of my life was that while I liked weird stuff, I myself wasn't that weird.
2017
A Passionate Mediocrity
On an author with a worldview that is more arrested development than substance.
2016
Push My Envelope Dept.
"Transgressive" isn't what it used to be. Maybe it never was.
2013
In Time
An intriguing SF concept is soon plundered for a mere neo-noir plotline, but save the pieces anyway.
It's Your Party And I'll Cry If I Want To Dept.
Why the current pop-culture Geek Movie Paradise orgy leaves me cold (again).
Ballard's Ballad Dept.
Why J.G. Ballard didn't write just "SF" or "litfic", but stories for and about our age.
