By Thom Robinson Introduction On publication in 1983, The Place of Dead Roads was received as William Burroughs’ long-awaited Western, a project originally announced two decades before.1 Forming the second instalment of an emerging trilogy, the novel continued the use of genre fiction found in Cities of the Red Night (1981), with much of its…
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1984 Interview with William S. Burroughs
On the Occasion of the Publication of The Place of Dead Roads by William Weiss Abe Frajndlich, William Burroughs Close-Up, 1984 (© Abe Frajndlich 1984/2013) William Burroughs smokes Players and manipulates them with a hand that is thin and pale and missing the last terrible joint of the fifth digit. We’re drinking coffee and talking…