Joan Rivers' joke cards, displayed behind the scenes at "Joan Rivers: A Dead Funny All-Star Tribute" (Jordan Curtis Hughes/NBC). As for the ghosts of Rivers’ less defensible moments, they’re ...

Myriam Gurba, the author of the critically acclaimed new essay collection Creep, talked to Jezebel about her creep—and the creeps lurking all around us.

In 1951, Burroughs shot dead his common-law wife, Joan Vollmer, in what the writer claimed was a William Tell-style stunt gone wrong as he tried to shoot a glass from her head.

But we do know that Joan Vollmer died a horrific, torturous slow death. That she cried out for help, and was aware of large portions of the torture. That she suffered. That she was in pain. And yet, ...

Likely to make you feel: Swept away then hollowed out. He's referring to his allegedly accidental, fatal shooting of his wife, Joan Vollmer, in 1951, supposedly part of a William Tell trick gone ...

In a January 1965 Paris Review conversation reprinted in Writers at Work: The Third Series (Viking Compass), Burroughs frames the killing in the context of guns and gun violence in Mexico City, ...

(The author wrote the book in the early 1950s while awaiting trial in Mexico for the murder of his wife, Joan Vollmer. It wasn’t published until 1985.) ...

Daniel Craig delivers as devastating depiction of longing, lust and outsiderness in this well-crafted adaptation of William S. Burroughs' autobiographical novella.

His wife, Joan Vollmer, was lost in depression, illness and alcoholism, driven to deterioration by her own demons and the rigours of her unhappy, abusive relationship with husband “Bill”.

She’s there thanks to a fluke. NNDB’s “Born in 1924” list identifies her as “ Joan Adams Vollmer (Occupation: Victim).” But even though the date of her sudden death by a bullet to the head is ...

Burroughs wrote “Queer” as an act of self-evisceration , seemingly tormented by guilt after the fatal shooting of his common-law wife Joan Vollmer during a drunken 1951 game of William Tell ...