![]() And he said that I would write a novel called. I sort of resisted the idea of being a writer. ![]() "I sort of resisted the idea of being a writer," he said. An heir to the Burroughs Adding Machine Company, he initially studied medicine at Harvard before falling into the group of misfit writers who eventually evolved into "The Beats." Though Burroughs said his work had little in common stylistically with fellow Beats Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, he credits their encouragement in helping him get started. I always was attracted to the run-down, or the old or the offbeat."īurroughs hadn't always intended to be a man of letters. As he explained in a 1985 interview: "It was just my character. ![]() In an introduction (of sorts) to the novel, Burroughs wrote that the book was a result of "detailed notes on sickness and delirium" that he took during his 15 years of heroin addiction. ![]() Burroughs' novel Naked Lunch is a dark, wild ride through the terror of heroin addiction and withdrawal, filled with paranoia, erotica and drug-fueled hallucinations. ![]()
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