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“I am not punk and don’t know why anyone would consider me the godfather of punk,” William S. Burroughs said. So, why would artists like Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Jello Biafra and Thurston Moore associate the legendary ‘Naked Lunch’ writer with the genre? Maybe it’s because he was a compulsive anti-authoritarian who came crashing out of the suburban stagnation of the ’50s, cutting up poetry, shooting guns and heroin, refusing to conform and influencing an entire movement.
The new documentary ‘William S. Burroughs: A Man Within,’ which opens at the IFC Center on Nov. 17, portrays the late author as a catalyst of New York’s music culture of the ’70s. In the exclusive clip below, fans can see Pop and Biafra discuss Burroughs’ legacy and, at the start of the excerpt, catch a glimpse of Sonic Youth members hanging out in the author’s backyard in 1993.
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