He was a genuine human being. I wrote him while in high school, and he took the time to hand write two pages back to me.

In 1995 I spent an afternoon with Burroughs in his Lawrence, KS, home, with six of my college students. He was a gracious host, clearly enjoying the attention and interest from young people who were studying the Beats. There was nothing fearful about him, unless you’re fearful of an intense interest and complete honesty. He introduced us to his current cat (Fletch), and showed us around his yard with fishpond and the grave of a former cat. He lived only a few years longer.

The book is good. The first decent attempt to chronologically account for the life of the man, with great access to documents, people and places that were formative and witness to it.

The man the myth the legend - the man the myth the legend - the man the myth the legend - the man the man the man the man....who let the world know where he was and what he knew - without blinders nor shame. He spoke in a educated and matter of fact way, he was willing to let the world inject into him whatever it had cooked up. He is one of a kind and a true hero of mine. There will never be another one like him. He was sweet and gentle, he was fearless and simple, he did what he did and never hid it for the sake of what people thought.

I ran into Burroughs in 75. He was scary, a haunted gray figure, as if emerging from a pulp novel mist or a horror film.

thank you for this. Junkie and Naked Lunch are both terrific books with some of the most vivid imagery i've ever read

this is precious, thank you.

My favorite Author. Man brings you to another perception, wierd, irrational rational, rational irrational, long wave double space chemistry connection. The Writer.

Barry, thank you, this is a great gift. Sorry to be so late to the party. Best & cheers, Sean

Kudos to Barry Miles...very insightful short feature!

A brilliant mind. And a good friend with Francis Bacon. Doesn't get any better than that.

My HERO, I could listen to him and things about him. I was born in 1964 and I began reading his works in the 1970's, late 70's. He was dynamic. And his underground movies. And my generation's Kurt Cobain going and meeting him (Mr. Burroughs) before he passed away.

still love his work!!

great stuff...

Bourghs is a kick in the ass. Nice the These are avalible to us today

when you (are forced to) dig deep down enough, it's quite barren and ugly, also most stuff becomes pointless, but it's quite liberating, albeit depressing. a heavy load still.

Thank You.m

Burroughs played an amazing character ( himself) in Drugstore Cowboy w/ Matt Dillon, early 80s. Shot in Portland Ore. Great movie. Shows how the doper lifestyle can kill u as easy as the junk. A point lost on most people talking about drugs.

Well worth viewing..

A crowd of people where he would feel safe and would help him out. Sounds like family to me.

Wish I could have met Old Bull Lee, or any of the Beats, for that matter.

Thanx 4 sharing, burroughs is one of my heroes.

Smoked a joint with him when I was a kid. At first I refused because he was an old man I didn’t know at a punk rock show. He laughed and laughed at me and I ended up smoking with him.

No one ever wrote more honestly about drugs.

Summer I turned 20 read Nietzsche "Antichrist ", smoked weed and read Naked Lunch. Never had a chance brother! "Literary Outlaw" by Ted Morgan. Couldn't believe one person could think and do what he did. Unfortunately the more salacious aspects of his life became my own.

No Good No Bad Always Great Art

Junky is a great book

Awesome video! I thought Blaise Pascal was the one who invented the adding machine in France in like the 1600's or something.

I just finished the book Junky yesterday. Today I read 50 pages in his book Interzone.

I appreciate what this man is trying to say, but in all honesty had I not already known about these accounts , I'd be completely lost in his highly diffuse monotoned explanations. It's my understanding that, Joan told Bill, it was time for their William Tell routine, and she placed a highball on top of her head. The gun (as I understood it) had a propensity for hitting targets low; and if the shooter didn't take this into account, they would miss. But like most crimes, wild stories, and great moments in history, I personally was not there to bare witness , I cannot say with all certainty exactly how it went down. I do however love hearing him (WSB) tell, describe and explain his stories, in his own voice. It's only at these moments, when your ear rides his thick, smokey voice, one can truly appreciate his unique style.

Hear Neill Young "the needle and the damage s'done"

That sneering WSB voice is what I found interesting......

In the end, we come to terms with ourselves...

Love his part in Drug Store Cowboy.

Has anyone ever seen a photo of Phil White (the Sailor)?

... imvho His most interesting book might well be Nova Express, for brevity coupled with multi-facetted, truly inspirational take/out-look on the world, not so dissimilar to G. Orwells, perhaps ...

22..? Babies..? Navels? No way. That’s extremely hard to believe for some reason. I cannot wrap my head around that one lol

Ol' Bazzer's the Queen of Artistic License.

So he shot his wife, and felt awful about it the rest of his life. To me, doing something harmful to another person is something to regret and subsequently feel guilty about. It shows Burroughs wasn't cold and calloused, but in spite of his seemingly bizaar character, he did have feelings.

Key point here is wealthy backgrounds

The only conventional and easy to read book by Burroughs is Junky but the perusal of his other works esp Cities of the Red Night is taxing but rewarding.

How can you miss were "beat" came from......"beat by the bomb"....

A classic example of how historical truth can never be accurately related due to the obvious presumptuous pronouncements of scribes such as Mr. Miles who WAS NOT THERE during many of his described episodes and incidents during William Burroughs life. One can understand the need to know more regarding one's interests, but the ability to traverse time and space still eludes our grasp. The further we get from the TIME described, the less it resembles the truth of that instance.

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So I says to my doctor, "What is the worst addiction of all time?" He gives me a thoughtful look and says, "Well ... probably heroine or morphine." I look him straight in the eye and say, "Nope, it's death. Try it once and yer hooked for all eternity!" I don't think he got it and he still wouldn't give me a script for Tramadol!! What a fricking moron!!!

Son œuvre avec celle Ginsberg et Kerouac ont amené la "beat génération" . Ils ont changé la culture occidentale au milieu du XXème siècle. His work with that of Ginsberg and Kerouac brought the "beat generation" They changed Western culture in the middle of the 20th century.

Yeah, why don't share the letters alledgely written?

It wasn't 100 years, but it seems like it listening.

How can you review Burroughs without the Los Alamos experience?

Alcohol, period, I'm one of those people that alcohol can turn extremely violent, I never shot a gf but if I'd had a gun, who knows, booze can bring out evil or at least completely insane behaviour

Ah, at odds with the Ugly Spirit. That spirit is always part of the human experience. All of them. Not all experience is tangible. So magic can be science not yet understood.

he murdered his wife and never served a day. pretty amazing.

Say what you want about America but it's produced some incredibly inspiring artists over the decades. No other country even comes close.

I need a heroin sandwiches for eat. You can hear the problems in sky there. I did. I hope it rains inside work so we can't but get paid. Everyday is excellent!!

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Listening to Barry Miles' palaver you'd think he was in Burroughs' inner circle. He gives the impression that WSB left some sloppy notes around and Ginsburg and Friends were outside in the shrubs, ready to rush in and administer extreme unction to the work when Burroughs would leave his flat. Pretty shoddy, Mr. Miles.

“The got the Steely Dan T-shirt”

Dude

I have always felt he was the one who had earned himself an indulgence in heaven.

What a tragic sad life...the brain can be indeed ill.

... at least so who honestly tried to grapple in earnest with His daimons ...

Great interview, but "Phil, something or other" - Come on Barry, Phil White - you should have this stuff on the tip of your tongue, sir.

Opinions, I have none.

Its my opinion Barry miles butchered burroughs novels with grauerholtz and wrote that insane autobiography. Maybe grauerholtz thought he was owed something, but miles, there is something missing in his stuff, something important. Something vital. He and grauerholtz assume they know burroughs though ended up playing with very dangerous formulas they took for simple cut-ups and the simple whimsy they thought burroughs was, but they messed with a dark science held within burroughs work only burroughs knew about himself. And they opened the puzzle box and mass produced the sacrilege for the kids to read - saying this is burroughs. Was it?

Is there anything worse than suffering through the clumsy, 1st-year psychological profiles from the likes of soft intellectuals (editors) such as B. Miles? -His presumed 'insights' amount to little more historical gossip in which not much more is revealed than Miles' own thinly veiled, and likely 'unconscious' ambivalence towards Burroughs himself. If you're at all interested in Burroughs' work, do yourself a favor and go directly to the source; interpreters like Miles only serve to muddy the literary waters, such as they are.

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Am i right to believe that buroughs greatly influenced Tom Waits.

uncle bull lee

This guy narrating is out there. Says Burroughs' mom was "something wrong there" bc she said she worshipped the ground he walked on. Also, he went to the best schools so he didn't know how to spell well... 🤔🙃

Uncle Bill

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If you can't party at work find a new job

Hhhmmm.

"Con and bullshit." -WSB

Beatniks! Pot? The Hippies were the pot smokers. They were more into jazz, not rock and roll. Coffee, wine, leisure and off beat clothes were their big things. They were not hot rodders. Hot rodders were competitors. More into the meaning of life stuff. By today’s standards they were only mildly different. The main thing is, they did not want to TOIL in a factory. It was 1950s America. Real adult men were ex military. Combat military! Buttoned up. That was the background they contrasted against.

Sounds like Burroughs was a mooch. Was he a mooch? I like think he paid his own way.

The idiocy of people trying to be experts on other people's minds.

An american original.

Who writes these hilarious sub-titles? Do they have any knowledge of the subject matter -- Alice Ginsburg??? Are they hearing impaired? Are they even listening to what the guy is saying or just doing it phonetically as if it's a foreign language. Maybe they are. Translators reveal yourselves. Are you in Bangladesh? India? Philippines? Do you even speak English? And it's not just this one but all of them with the CC option on You Tube.

so how he payed for his living..appartement..drugs..vacations to Mexico. As I know he didnt sell anything his early years..also not saw him working. He was a disturbed young Snob..going "for real"..

he looks like he is related to the Bush family to me

Another goddamn rich kid. 'I never took a cent off them' he whined. (Didn't have to.)

Awful lot of fuss over a second-tier novelist. Hard to know whether to consider him a Bukowski Award winner or the reverse. Possibly a tie.

This man was a sick twisted fucking dog

I can imagine a very miserable energy around Burroughs.... he looks hunched up and really quite miserable. Can’t stand his voice cannot understand a word he says........ interesting chap though,

Silly old man

Work in an office celebrate anniversaries the world of the heterosexual is a sick and boring life

The only talent those beat writers had was self-promotion.

The sadness of it all is that Jack had to deal with these two motherfuckers--ginsberg and burroughs were a couple of creepy creatures, and had no capacity to support jack in the way he really needed. It was an isolating time for an artist, and they both made it much worst for him. And that gulf between straight and gay is SO immense and SO ignored, especially when it comes to the arts, we must begin to look at Kerouac as a very separate, isolated figure within the so-called beat framework of ginsburg, burroughs and himself.