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Mar 15, 2016fugeninkan rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This is the definitive biography of William S. Burroughs. I have read Ted Morgan's Literary Outlaw as well and that one is fine too but Call Me Burroughs, written after Burroughs had passed away into the Western Lands covers many parts of his life in more detail than the Morgan bio does. This is especially true of the last fifteen years or so of Burroughs' life when he moved to Kansas and took up shotgun painting. Here you can read about the story of how Burroughs ended up as one of the figures on the cover of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper album as well as the Rolling Stones unsuccessful attempt to draw him into their circle of friends. Burroughs was a truly strange and original character and a very creative artist. There really isn't anyone else like him.