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"He was an exterminator in Chicago, a bartender in New York, a summons-server in Newark. In Paris he sat at café tables, watching the sullen French faces go by. In Athens he looked up from his ouzo at what he called the ugliest people in the world. In Istanbul he threaded his way through crowds of opium addicts and rug-sellers, looking for the facts. In English hotels he read Spengler and the Marquis de Sade."
-Jack Kerouac (from On the Road)
I'm a big William Burroughs fan.
Burroughs was the quintessential anti-hero of the so called Beat Generation. Older than his two more famous counterparts Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsberg, Burroughs was a mentor to both men. His most famous work is undoubtedly Naked Lunch. It's a cult classic. Read it if you dare. Burroughs was a lifelong heroin user and an unrepentant dope fiend. He wrote about his addiction in a book called Junky where he describes in detail the junky lifestyle as he lived it in the New York City of the 1940's. Burroughs' dry humor and biting sarcasm are his trademarks. He is part mid-western gentleman, part gun toting madman, and part social commentator.
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