William S. Burroughs: A Man Within

Docdrama the Beatnik and literary icon William Burroughs: A Man Within by Leyser. Burroughs was indeed a scandalous personality, but his literary works -- such as "The Naked Lunch," "Queer" and "Junkie" -- have become landmarks of American literature while his influences ranged from beatniks to punks, from rockers to poets to performance artists, and to the language itself: "Heavy metal," "Blade Runner," "Soft Machine" were coined by him. "He was like another kind of Bible," says Patti Smith.
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