A new biography reveals a William S. Burroughs both ghastlier and more impressive than many previously thought. How do you write a masterpiece? It’s inside you, you know it’s inside you: How do you get it out? Well, if you’re William S.

So, you want to write but can’t afford those darned writing courses you see advertised online or in all those fancy cultural ‘zines you spend your hard earned dollars on? Well, fret no more, for now you can have your very own creative writing class from William S.

Extracted from a lecture given by WSB at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado, April 20, 1976. Break Through in Grey Room, Sub Rosa, Belgium.

WILLIAM BURROUGHS and the TORSO MURDERER with Oliver Harris William Burroughs writes "...in this life we have to take things as we find them as the torso murderer said when he discovered his victim was a quadruple amputee.