Tag Archives: The Morning News
“Be Just and If You Can’t Be Just, Be Arbitrary.”
Today is the birthday of William S. Burroughs: writer, performer, critic, painter, wife-shooter, cat-lover, addict, bunker-dweller.
That last point recently caught the attention of photographer Peter Ross. Throughout most of the ’70s Burroughs lived in The Bunker, a partially renovated YMCA locker room on New York’s Lower East Side. He moved out in 1981, and the [...]
Announcing the Tournament of Books Long List
I’m not generally big on end-of-year Best Of lists. Most of them are on the predictable side, although there are a few standouts—the B&N Review has some well-thought out categories; The Millions’ Year in Reading series, with guest writers talking about the books that moved them in 2009, is personal and interesting; and I liked [...]
