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The Last Moments of ‘Queer' Tell a Murderous True Story About William S. Burroughs' Haunted, Tragic Life
It's an ending that deviates from and expands upon author William S. Burroughs' source material, but one that sticks close to the Beat author's actual biography. In the movie, Allerton abandons ...
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The Romanticized Squalor of Queer
The Beat writer William S. Burroughs began his second book, Queer, just months after killing his wife, Joan Vollmer, at a party above the Bounty Bar in Mexico City. Though he completed the novella ...
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In 'Queer,' Daniel Craig is outstanding as a fictionalized William S. Burroughs
Lee is a fictionalized stand-in for the Beat Writer William S. Burroughs, whose years spent living in Mexico were eventful, to say the least. He began writing Queer in 1952, while awaiting trial ...
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Daniel Craig's Queer updates the Burroughs original — for better or worse
Like William S. Burroughs's opinion of Queer, Anthony Burgess did not like to think about writing A Clockwork Orange Burgess's infamous dislike of his own novel makes a sort of sense. A potboiler ...
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The Last Moments of ‘Queer’ Tell a Murderous True Story About William S. Burroughs’ Haunted, Tragic Life
It’s an ending that deviates from and expands upon author William S. Burroughs’ source material, but one that sticks close to the Beat author’s actual biography. In the movie, Allerton ...