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William S. Burroughs
December 4, 2024
Andrew Marzoni
The Romanticized Squalor of Queer
Luca Guadagnino makes William S. Burroughs’s novella a love story that is sordid, pathetic, affecting, and true.
December 1, 1962
John Wayne
The Great Burroughs Affair
A review of William S. Burroughs's 1962 cult novel "Naked Lunch"

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