Tag: William S. Burroughs
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Review: Keith Haring: The Authorized Biography by John Gruen
I’ve been on a modern art trip lately, trying to learn more about art and artists. I never learned anything in school about art, and other than maybe Jackson Pollock and a bit of Damien Hirst, I don’t know anything. But I enjoy modern art in the sense that I want to figure out how…
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The Burroughs house
I am back. I am sick. I could barely talk today, and felt like crawling under my desk and dying all day. But I have a deadline this Friday, and I had 248 mail messages waiting for me at work, so I had to get there. Plus I woke up at 6am when the Nyquil…
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persona, content
I’ve been thinking more about content, which I babbled on about yesterday. There are a few conflicts involved in all of this, so bear with me. Yesterday, I talked about content and method versus character and setting and plot. It might be helpful if you read yesterday’s entry, but for now, I’m going to ignore…
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persona
I’m at the point in my writing cycle where I’m overanalyzing how writing works. I often need to break apart stories and books and try to find what makes them readable, desirable, and functional. Although I feel that Rumored to Exist is a good book in many places, I don’t know how it will stand…