We trace the effectively biographical Bill through his introduction and addiction to junk, a seemingly broad term that encompasses opioids from heroin to morphine to benzedrine. I picked this up because I figured Burroughs is enough of a figure to deserve at least reading once, and appropriately enough I finished Junky on my first visit to Mexico City, where this book also ends, and where the real live Burroughs famously shot and killed his common law wife.Īs for the work itself, it's a fascinating enough snapshot of drug culture in the 1950s, but it is equally effective as a expose of seedy criminal underculture, and of beat/cool culture at its infancy. My first Burroughs book! And probably my penultimate.
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