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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