To celebrate the 100th birthday of America's most audacious writer, William S. Burroughs, Chicago Humanities Festival brings together a motley crew of poets, writers, and musicians. William Seward Burroughs (1914 - 1997) was an American writer and visual artist. He was a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author whose influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature. Burroughs's needs took him across the United States, down into Mexico, to Europe and beyond. On his travels, he meets up with various members of the underground drug and "outcast" cultures.
Alison Cuddy
Presenter
Davis Schneiderman
Writer/Organizer
Sally Timms
Musician
Anne Waldman
Poet
Eileen Myles
Poet
Daniel M. Knox
Composer
Sasha Frere-Jones
Musician/Writer
Thomas Cornerford
Filmmaker
Tony Trigilio
Teacher/Poet
Richard Pettengill
Performer
Don Meyer
Performer
