Acts And Entertainments
June, 1970
William Burroughs, the author of Naked Lunch and other extravaganzas of underground junkie existence, might be called the avant-garde writer's writer. Indeed, few contemporary authors have received so good a press at their colleagues' hands. Mary McCarthy, usually hard as nails, compares his satiric vision with Jonathan Swift's. She sees his novels as a brilliant new form of "real" science fiction. Leslie Fiedler claims that Burroughs is killing the novel in the best possible way--by a...
