Call Me Burroughs: A Life

Hugely enjoyable. Barry Miles's intimate portrait of Burroughs strips away the artsy associations and we are invited, momentarily, to peer into the human sides of El Hombre Invisible: gun toter, accidental artist, guileless boy, sensitive sweetheart, absurdly inappropriate humourist and ardent cat fan - alongside being the accidental murderer of wife Joan Vollmer and the absent dad of son William Jr. It's astonishing to see how reviled he was when he was just starting out, when you see the reverence he received on later. Goes to show how inconsequential and picky fame can be, I guess?

The detailed story of the life of WSB. A fascinating read. I find that his life was more interesting than his writing. Difficult to read at points without passing judgment on his actions. As to a technicality of the book, footnotes would have been more efficient than endnotes, given the size of the book

This is a fantastic book. Unfortunately, it actually has too much sex and it seems like some of the material is disorganized, but I really enjoy listening to the audiobook. War example is when he talks about 10 years he talks about nothing but sex with underage prostitute boys, instead of other things about Tangiers that would’ve been more interesting to me.