{"id":14586,"date":"2014-12-19T12:48:39","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T17:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=14586"},"modified":"2014-12-19T12:52:13","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T17:52:13","slug":"incidental-intelligence-a-portrait-of-william-burroughs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2014\/12\/incidental-intelligence-a-portrait-of-william-burroughs.html","title":{"rendered":"Incidental Intelligence: A Portrait of William Burroughs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n<\/a>I once asked Nelson Algren what he thought of Naked Lunch<\/em>. He grinned at me, as though he were being entertained by a wiseguy. I knew he had no love for the Beats. He had derided Jack Kerouac as a momma\u2019s boy and dismissed Allen Ginsberg as a publicist. So his answer surprised me: \u201cBurroughs wrote half of a good book.\u201d He meant that as praise. What Algren liked were the horrific \u201croutines\u201d and their cosmic lineup of hilariously appalling characters. (Read more at IT: International Times<\/a>)<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I once asked Nelson Algren what he thought of Naked Lunch. He grinned at me, as though he were being entertained by a wiseguy. I knew he had no love for the Beats. He had derided Jack Kerouac as a momma\u2019s boy and dismissed Allen Ginsberg as a publicist. So his answer surprised me: \u201cBurroughs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-literature","8":"category-news","9":"category-political-culture","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Incidental-Intel-small-icon199-e1419009725566.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-3Ng","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14586"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14606,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14586\/revisions\/14606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}