Barry Miles & John Tytell discuss William S. Burroughs

[@WilliamCane]

The Barry Miles biography CALL ME BURROUGHS is one of the most mesmerizing books I have ever read. It reads like a novel yet is filled with facts after fact about Burroughs. I would love to meet Miles.

[@BrentStrathdeePehi]

I’d like to read it. I read Literary Outlaw back in the 90’s and liked it a lot

[@JosephKnecht-b5w]

i highly recommend it.for me, the best Burroughs biography. and the second greatest literary biography i have read is the auto-biography '' Life of Moravia'' by Alberto Moravia. @@BrentStrathdeePehi

[@AFaceintheCrowd01]

Really enjoyed this -- thanks for posting. If I ever wrote a book, I would want someone like John Tytell to respond to it. Makes some of us miss public discourse -- yet another facet of American life discarded by the anti-intellectual majority who believe stupidity is a virtue.

[@diceman1978]

Love listening to Barry talk humbly but passionately about his books, especially in relation to WSB. Cute book shop girl too

[@luke125]

"In the US you have to be a deviant or die of boredom" -William S. Burroughs

[@GMDark]

Didn't think the trilogy was "hard" to get through, have read all three multiple times & enjoy them, they are very transporting.

[@michaellavin6038]

His book is an incredible, fascinating piece of work.

[@giarcnella66]

This fellow on the left, Tytell, is exactly the reason why I dropped out of academia.

[@kidzoki]

Insufferable, isn't he? Cartoonishly insufferable.

[@aeh1177]

Barry Miles is an (inter)national treasure. The documentor/centre of many a scene.

[@stephenkane2464]

+DNA Cowboy Noticed his impressive sense of understanding he has....

[@warlockofwordsreturnsrb4358]

I'm a huge Burroughs reader, and have had Barry Miles' Leviathan on my shelf for aaaaageesss. Need to get down to diving into it real soon.

[@warlockofwordsreturnsrb4358]

I was just reading Miles biography, and it's a stormer so far, one detail from his time at Los Alamos - future location of the development of the A bomb - jumped out, Bill appeared as the lead in a school production of Lord Dunsany's A Night at an Inn!

[@treefrogjohnson7514]

"There's something wrong with that boy, he's always frowning".

[@luke125]

(RE: Kurt Cobain) Close. It's actually "There's something wrong with that boy, he frowns for no good reason."

[@gregtallent7827]

Didn't he say when he committed suicide "That boy was already dead" ?

[@kirby711]

Of course WB would be a fan of an underground press I think he was a fan of anything underground in my humble opinion

[@stephenkane2464]

Barry is brilliant

[@mementomatrix]

who is the man in the picture in the bookshelve, is Duke Ellington?

[@WG161]

I also think it's Duke Ellington.

[@vikgrig8015]

Who is mentioned after Hart Crane and before Spangler at 13:55?

[@markcarey67]

Alfred Korzybski - general semantics

[@vikgrig8015]

@@markcarey67 thank you

[@FJTiernan]

Who is the guy who wrote a negative review of Bryon Gysin's art? Thanks

[@rmjon23]

"Wipe out the bible belt and you will glimpse the Garden of Eden." - WSB, The Revise Boy Scout Manual, p.22

[@gregtallent7827]

Great addition to the Burroughs oeuvre

[@bjnwright]

Burroughs was cool because he just didn't give a damn. This irreverence screams at you in Junky. He seemed to be above all the things that would cause most people great concern. One of the least judgmental souls to ever put pen to paper. I don't think he even turned up to the obscenity trials over Naked Lunch in the States. He was called the Godfather of Punk and a whole list of other things, that he really didn't care for. He was happy to be himself without the fame.

[@michaelshepherd1072]

I always thought my devotion to sf prepared me for WSB who was not of my generation at all!

[@PRmoustache88]

I could never read Boroughs after a good meal or without a moderate dose of scopolomine. During my college years, I lived a precarious, impoverished existence and I was acquainted with my share of street characters with no deep sense of intimacy for damn sure; let me assure you. I knew of this junkie duo, Pierre and Randy, who were junk fiends. Pierre had no sense of hygiene or decorum. He was some wastrel from Montreal. I needed to use the head at Pierre and Randy's apartment. I saw Pierre in semi coma in the tub. I ignored him and urged my shy bladder to void. After I zipped up I noticed Pierre was this bloody mess with dark blots of toilet paper all over him and bloody dried rivers down various limbs of his body. It was as if he was doused all over with Hershey's chocolate syrup. I took it that he was doing the junkie equivalent of pin the tail on the donkey in his quest for the perfect injectable vein. Parts of him wreaked of rotted lymph fluid. Randy, though having the same hobby as Pierre had more lengths of viable veinology to puncture. Later on Randy, needed to couch surf to another locale, so I introduced him to my aged, poofta acquaintance, Dennis. It was late, and I was in between apartments. I fell asleep on Dennis' moldy couch across from his king sized bed. I heard a loud smacking, glugging sound and was roused to see Randy doing something randy with Dennis. Randy commanded me to close my eyes and go back to sleep, which I did in all haste. I was able to get some sleep for a few hours, but was awakened from my slumber by the smell of ass, cum load, and shit. I only saw a glimpse and slapped my hand over my eyes and pretended my nose only smelled roses. Anyhow please don't ask me to read Naked Lunch. I'll punch you if you do!

[@parsifool1]

Right! Right! Right! wtf

[@aleks4307]

why is that John Tytell guy barking all the time?

[@kenw.simpson1007]

What a lot of abysmal nonsense

[@calabiyou]

Maybe you arent a an.

[@barrybenson4158]

Go cry about it Ken.

[@gregtallent7827]

@@barrybenson4158 lol yeah seriously.