Performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson was one of the only women inside of William Burrough’s clique of friends and collaborators during the 1970′s, while some critics were pointing to what they saw as misogyny in Burrougs’ writings and statements to the press, women like Anderson and punk priestess Patti Smith befriended WSB, and were praised by the writer who trusted in their mutual friendship and praised them as artists.

Hear Anderson’s remembering of Burroughs in this remarkable portrait on BBC radio…

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In the 1970′s few women were allowed in William Burroughs’ clique of male friends and colleagues. I’ve seen lots of lovely pictures of Burroughs with Patti Smith and I’ve read that she had a crush on the writer. According to this new BBC program, another woman who had access to The Bunker – as Burroughs’ NYC basement apartment in a former YMCA was called – was experimental composer and performer Laurie Anderson. Listen to Anderson profiling Burroughs here with Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted here…

As a bonus, here’s Anderson performing at the Nova Convention honoring William S. Burroughs in 1996…

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