Back in 1979, William S. Burroughs taught a writing course for Boulder Colorado’s Naropa University. Thanks to the magic of YouTube we can all learn the secrets of the Beat icon. The three part video series covers Burroughs’s views on writing techniques, science fiction, the occult, neuroscience, cloning, and authors as varied as Paul Bowles, Joseph Conrad, Carson McCullers, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Stephen King.

h/t to Dangerous Minds