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Goth-rock folk quartet Murder By Death takes its name from a 1978 mystery spoof movie. “We just thought it was a funny name that didn’t make sense,” vocalist and guitarist Adam Turla told Wired.com in...
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William S. Burroughs’ Lost Graphic Novel Ah Pook Is Here Gets Exhumed
Naked Lunch author and sci-fi visionary William S. Burroughs only wrote one graphic novel, but it quickly disappeared after bouncing around in the early ’70s. Now the long-lost book, Ah Pook Is Here,...
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Documentary William S. Burroughs: A Man Within engagingly dissects the influential writer’s body of speculative and sci-fi work. Running at nearly an hour, director Yony Leyser’s wide-ranging analysis...
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New documentary The Beat Hotel explores the scene swirling around a Parisian crash pad where Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and other members of the Beat Generation forged their mythologies in...
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El-P Blasts Drone-Filled Dystopia on Cancer for Cure
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A vampire capitalist haunts New York in the film adaptation of Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo's sci-finance novel that focuses on a Wall Street billionaire named Eric Packer who trades, converses, theorizes,...
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