Classic Appreciation: On William Burroughs and his work - by Luc Sante, author and essayist | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
William Seward Burroughs has been a daunting gray presence in American culture for more than twenty-five years. He has just turned seventy, which means that he has chronologically attained the age he has seemed to be for some time. His grayness is not that of an expansive, grandfatherly Whitman, but a hue partaking of the …