The stop-motion cartoon of William S. Burroughs’ ‘Ah Pook Is Here’
The 1979 collection ‘Ah Pook Is Here and Other Texts’ William S. Burroughs envisaged Ah Pook Is Here, an extension of the comix serial The…
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Kembra Pfahler on 30 years of the Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, with exclusive Richard Kern pix!
Photo by Richard Kern, courtesy of Kembra Pfahler On February 15, Marc Almond, the Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, Sateen, Hercules & Love Affair, and…
Born To Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
Cultural critic Mark Dery, whose erudite essays have appeared in the pages of the Atlantic Monthly, Washington Post, Village Voice and his own collections, The…
William S. Burroughs’ time-traveling experimental flexi disc, ‘Abandoned Artifacts’
Talk Talk Vol. 3, No. 6, cover art by William S. Burroughs The Lawrence, Kansas label Fresh Sounds had a long-standing relationship with William S.…
The perverse and the transcendent: An interview with Ron Athey
One of the great challenges of considering the work of a groundbreaking artist like Ron Athey is that we must consider how temporal and ephemeral…
Meet the priest who was Oscar Wilde’s lover and partly the basis for ‘Dorian Gray’
The writer Max Frisch once wrote that an author does nothing worse than betray himself. In that, a work of fiction reveals more of a…
Meet the David Bowie of Brazil: The wild, weird glam tropicália hybrid of Secos e Molhados
Secos e Molhados (“The Dry & Wet”) was a hybrid glam-rock/Tropicália band formed in Brazil in 1971 during the most repressive phase of the military…
William S. Burroughs on the cut-up technique and meeting Samuel Beckett & Bob Dylan
“It’s the stink of death, citizens!” (Photo by Peter Hujar) This hour-long BBC Radio special opens with “Old Lady Sloan,” the Mortal Micronotz’ interpretation of…
The superstars of Lou Reed’s ‘Walk on the Wild Side’
The Portuguese release of ‘Walk on the Wild Side’ (via Discogs) In 1993, the BBC documentary series Arena devoted four episodes to “Tales of Rock…
‘Michael’s Thing’: New York City’s once essential queer city guide (as seen on HBO’s ‘The Deuce’)
Early on in the most recent episode of HBO’s The Deuce, which is set in New York City in 1971, Vince Martino (one of the…