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No Substance #205: William S. Burroughs and His Guns
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No Substance #205: William S. Burroughs and His Guns

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Ben Peek
Nov 18, 2024
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The most iconic pictures of William S. Burroughs are not of him with books, or typewriters, but with guns. Some people don’t like this about Burroughs, but I think it’s fitting, really. After all, he killed his wife, Joan Vollmer, in 1951.

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