William S. Burroughs’ Short Class on Creative Reading

These lec­tures were record­ed in August 1979 at Naropa Uni­ver­si­ty in Boul­der, CO

Part 1 — The first half of a William S. Bur­roughs lec­ture on cre­ative read­ing. The lec­ture men­tions a wide vari­ety of authors, includ­ing Alis­tair Crow­ley, Paul Bowles, and many oth­ers. The class also dis­cuss­es sci­ence fic­tion, non-fic­tion, gen­er­al seman­tics, scriptwrit­ing, cloning, rot­ten ecto­plasm, and judg­ment in cut-ups, as well as Bur­rough­s’s nov­el, The Soft Machine.

Part 2 — The sec­ond half of a William S. Bur­roughs lec­ture on cre­ative read­ing. The lec­ture men­tions a wide vari­ety of authors, includ­ing Alis­tair Crow­ley, Paul Bowles, and many oth­ers. The class also dis­cuss­es sci­ence fic­tion, non-fic­tion, gen­er­al seman­tics, scriptwrit­ing, cloning, rot­ten ecto­plasm, and judg­ment in cut-ups, as well as Bur­rough­s’s nov­el, The Soft Machine.

You can find the course list­ed in the Lit­er­a­ture sec­tion of our big col­lec­tion, 1,700 Free Online Cours­es from Top Uni­ver­si­ties.

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