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Authors and artists are still afraid of breaking away as far as [William Burroughs] did... And he did it in the 50s!
Yony Leyser
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All of William S. Burroughs friends pushed it forward and introduced me to one another. I was able to enter into that beat family for a while and document it.
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I picked up On The Road, Howl, and Naked Lunch (in that order) in high school. I was blown away. The writing was amazing and the places it took me was even more far out. It opened up new avenues of thinking for me and so I went down the beaten road.
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I'm really happy I was kicked out of CalArts (for a controversial art piece I made).
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Slamdance actually is indie and rebellious. Sundance obviously felt threatened.
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