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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…

4 min readMar 28, 2023

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The Tale of Two Covers

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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…?

7 min readJan 1, 2023

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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…

21 min readDec 8, 2022

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Ian McEwan’s Lessons and The Empty Chair

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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…

8 min readNov 29, 2022

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The Singing Detective: The Triumph of the Invented Self

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Roger Keen

Singing Detective Gogglebox

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

4 min readJul 23, 2019

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Singing Detective Gogglebox

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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)…

11 min readOct 3, 2018

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William S. Burroughs: A Life

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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…

12 min readNov 5, 2014

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Autofictionalisation Personality Disorder

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Roger Keen

The Cult of the Novel

A Literary Context For Contemporary Entheogenic Visionary Experience

5 min readSep 30, 2014

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The Cult of the Novel

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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…

7 min readSep 26, 2014

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Ten Amazing Facts About William Burroughs

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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…

5 min readSep 1, 2014

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OCD & Schrödinger’s Cat

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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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