Tag: Naked Lunch
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Didion on Burroughs
1966 is calling. At a site called The Beat Patrol, I found a good review by Joan Didion, an author I really like, on William S. Burroughs, another author I really like. Originally published in 1966 in Bookweek, NOT the modern Book Week for children’s books), it begins: There sometimes seems a peculiar irrelevance about…
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William S. Burroughs and Norman Mailer
I enjoyed this Reality Studio article by Jed Birmingham on Burroughs and Mailer, which begins: Norman Mailer’s assessment lingers around Burroughs like a stale fart. You just cannot get away from it. From the back cover of the Grove Naked Lunch to obituary accounts, from the Wikipedia page to academic articles, Mailer’s territorial pissing has marked Burroughs’…