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By now most people on this campus, and probably around the country, know the gruesome story: Matthew Shepard, a first-year at the University of Wyoming at Laramie, was lured by two men out of town. They tied him like a scarecrow to the fence of a ranch and beat...
73. Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs'36
African Americans find their roots all over the world. Antonia Cottrell Martin, a co-founder of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society in Washington, is a fourth-generation descendant of pioneers who drove cattle to California during the Gold Rush. She advises using a variety of documents, explaining that...
The 1959 publication of Burroughs' experimental novel Naked Lunch challenged conventional literary forms in depicting an underground world fighting a self-destructing technological society and was the subject of a precedent-setting obscenity trial because of its violent and sexually explicit content.
Burroughs also dabbled in the visual arts and appeared in several films, including Drugstore Cowboy and Twister, as well as Nike commercials.