KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ William S. Burroughs Press Conference at the Berkeley Museum of Art, Nov. 12, 1974
Analog Audio
Event Type
InterviewsOrigin
KPFAIdentifier
AM.1974.11.12Program Length
39 minDates
| broadcast| 1974-11-12 | created
Description
At a press conference for an unidentified occasion, William S. Burroughs fields an array of questions and discusses his relationships with, or opinions of, Paul Bowles, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Jose Delgado, and Alfred Korzybski, among others. Burroughs also gives his opinions on the women's movement, contemporary (1974) politics (Watergate, etc.), governmental methods of civilian control, and the possibilities of revolution and rebellion in the contemporary era. There is also a fairly extensive discussion in the last ten minutes of the program on his writing process, including use of the cut-up method or collage writing and the relationship of his own writing to the science fiction genre.Genres
LiteratureCurrent Events
Subjects
Literature, ExperimentalCut-ups (Literary form)
Press conferences
Conspiracies
Authority
Beat generation