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Roger Keen

Roger Keen

The Tale of Two Covers

I created this photomontage at art college back in the1970s, as an attempt to convey the surreal, discombobulating weirdness of several LSD…

Mar 28, 2023

The Tale of Two Covers

Mar 28, 2023

Roger Keen

Avatar: The Way of Cliché

The 2009 film’s innovative Fusion Camera System 3D was enchanting in a notably ‘psychedelic’ way, but does the sequel build on this trend…?

Jan 1, 2023

Jan 1, 2023

Roger Keen

Ian McEwan’s Lessons and The Empty Chair

Lessons is Ian McEwan’s best novel since Atonement, a true late major work, perhaps a late masterpiece. He handles an armada of complex…

Dec 8, 2022

Ian McEwan’s Lessons and The Empty Chair

Dec 8, 2022

Roger Keen

The Singing Detective: The Triumph of the Invented Self

In the 2020s, when streaming has turned the TV serial into a seamless whole, digestible like a novel, it prompts us to pinpoint yet another…

Nov 29, 2022

The Singing Detective: The Triumph of the Invented Self

Nov 29, 2022

Roger Keen

Singing Detective Gogglebox

Imagine if there were a really intellectual Gogglebox-style discussion of a TV programme…

Jul 23, 2019

Singing Detective Gogglebox

Jul 23, 2019

Roger Keen

William S. Burroughs: A Life

What follows is an extended review of Barry Miles’s biography: William S. Burroughs: A Life (American title: Call Me Burroughs: A Life)…

Oct 3, 2018

William S. Burroughs: A Life

Oct 3, 2018

Roger Keen

Autofictionalisation Personality Disorder

When I was a child in the 1960s I read extensively – from classic set authors such as Shakespeare and Dickens to the adventure and escapist…

Nov 5, 2014

Autofictionalisation Personality Disorder

Nov 5, 2014

Roger Keen

The Cult of the Novel

A Literary Context For Contemporary Entheogenic Visionary Experience

Sep 30, 2014

The Cult of the Novel

Sep 30, 2014

Roger Keen

Ten Amazing Facts About William Burroughs

Burroughs’ grandfather, William Burroughs I, was another madcap genius who, in the 1880s, invented the first ever automated adding machine…

Sep 26, 2014

Ten Amazing Facts About William Burroughs

Sep 26, 2014

Roger Keen

OCD & Schrödinger’s Cat

I have a friend whom I shall call Brian who suffers from obsessive-checking syndrome. He will stare at a water tap or an electrical switch…

Sep 1, 2014

OCD & Schrödinger’s Cat

Sep 1, 2014

Roger Keen

Roger Keen

Writer, filmmaker and film critic. Author of The Empty Chair, Literary Stalker and The Mad Artist: Psychonautic Adventures in the 1970s | www.rogerkeen.com |

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