William S. Burroughs
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Oct 28, 2026
Nick GillespieHOST
And I've wanted to talk with you forever, and I read The Big You, your first novel.
Nick GillespieHOST
when it came out in the 80s whatever it's like 84. yeah i think i read it a couple years later and i highly recommend anybody who's interested in neil stevenson work go back and read it it's like you know junkie the book by william burroughs is kind of if you read that first all of his later works make sense okay and in a weird way i think that's true with you But, you know, that takes place in a nightmarish mega university that is bureaucratic and that is full of lies and deceitful people.
Nick GillespieHOST
There's all kinds of conspiracies going on.
Nick GillespieHOST
What had irritated you so much that you created, you know, that novel where a couple of plucky undergrads basically take on the system, not directly, but through various forms of subterfuge?
Omri HurwitzGUEST
Like, the whole thing, like, I'm interested in, like, different and innovative media stuff.
Omri HurwitzGUEST
So, like, if you read, like, Naked Lunch by, like, William S. Burroughs or whatever, like, the whole medium is, like, the whole writing is different.
Omri HurwitzGUEST
Where you read, like, I read, like, I was obviously a big fan of, back in the day, of, like, Jack Kerouac on the road.
Omri HurwitzGUEST
It's a whole different way of writing, right? And we're like, Now, okay, like, I've been reading, you know who I've been reading? I've been reading, what's his name? The Irish writer, one of the most famous ones, the iconic ones, with the, come on, I can't, I...
Josh YoungHOST
Yeah.
Josh YoungHOST
Who would go on to fame in their own right, including William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg.
Josh YoungHOST
Those are real people.
Josh YoungHOST
Yeah.
Josh YoungHOST
And Ellen Ginsberg would be our Carlo Marx.
Josh YoungHOST
Okay.
Josh YoungHOST
And Vigo is playing William S. Burroughs.
Josh YoungHOST
Okay, cool.
Paul McGuireHOST
William S. Burroughs, the famous underground author, writer.
Paul McGuireHOST
This guy was, still is...
Paul McGuireHOST
Many years after his death, William Burroughs is still one of the most powerful influences on modern culture.
Paul McGuireHOST
Kurt Cobain flew up William Burroughs shortly before his death, because William Burroughs, I mean, he would write these weird science fiction novels, which were a mixture of psychedelic drugs and science fiction narratives.
Paul McGuireHOST
Sir Babji, a Hindu guru, Laurel and Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, black and white comedians.
Paul McGuireHOST
Karl Marx.
Bob BertGUEST
You know, you just pick up the Village Voice and you're like, okay, I'm going to go see Johnny Thunders tonight.
Bob BertGUEST
I'm going to go see William Burroughs read tomorrow.
Bob BertGUEST
I'm going to go see Ross on Roland Kirk at the Village Vanguard on Friday.
Bob BertGUEST
You know, it was like that.
Douglas VigliottiHOST
This is the big reflection point in this novel, at least for me and many other people who have read this through the years.
Douglas VigliottiHOST
But other big works for the Tiberian movement were Naked Lunch by the aforementioned Burroughs and Ginsberg's Howell.
Douglas VigliottiHOST
But none have had the relevance, I would say, as On the Road.
Douglas VigliottiHOST
The movement had a resounding impact on culture throughout the 60s, especially with perhaps the greatest music generation of our time.
Mike JayGUEST
Had he actually kind of influenced the bull's brain and controlled its violent impulses? Or had he simply done, you know, what people do to pigs in abattoirs and just hit it with a kind of stunned device and kind of made it physically incapable of moving? people who were right there with this kind of idea of authority and control and where it was going.
Mike JayGUEST
Like William Burroughs, you know, he referred to Delgado's experimental art and said, look, they can do it now.
Mike JayGUEST
You know, they can just control you by pressing a button.
Mike JayGUEST
You know, this is where it's going.
Damien WalterGUEST
Yeah.
Damien WalterGUEST
Well, one of the big influences on Gibson is William Burroughs.
Damien WalterGUEST
So Gibson is like a lot of science fiction people in that up until a certain point, he's basically only read science fiction.
Damien WalterGUEST
And Philip K. Dick makes this point that a science fiction writer is a writer who has only ever read science fiction.
Ryan DugginsHOST
William Dafoe as well.
Ryan DugginsHOST
Speaking of writers of that time, right, so I was reading the work of William S. Burroughs over the summer, and I read a short story called Queer, which is his, like, first novella before he wrote Naked Lunch, which is his, like, big fucking... homosexual lifestyle masterpiece basically and he's really on the really fucking direct with what he says which is why i think people love those writers like they just don't pull punches yeah and this story queer it's basically um two men one's in love with the other and he's chasing him around the world it's centered around like a pub in mexico called the ship ahoy okay um and we follow the story of lee who's an older gay queen guy who's fun with everybody but he really likes allerton yeah allerton is a a younger guy who's kind of on the fence with his sexuality but he's also played with Lee a couple of times and he's become a little bit too enamoured with Alison.
Ryan DugginsHOST
Alison is aloof.
Ryan DugginsHOST
He won't commit and he's always pretending he's too busy to hang around with Lee.
Kevin KautzmanHOST
Boy, Andy, have you ever seen Naked? The movie Naked? Yeah.
Andrew EdwardsGUEST
Is that the William Burroughs
Kevin KautzmanHOST
one? No, that's Naked Lunch.
Kevin KautzmanHOST
This is the one that made David Thewlis famous.
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