How William S. Burroughs Used the Cut-Up Technique to Shut Down London’s First Espresso Bar (1972) (opens in new tab)

As we’ve noted before, the English coffeehouse has served as a staging ground for radical, sometimes revolutionary social change. Certainly this was the case during the Enlightenment, as it was with the salons in France. And yet, by the early 20th century it seems, coffee shops in London had grown scarcer and more humdrum. That […]