There is no right or wrong reading of Naked Lunch, though some readings are more common, and thus Burroughs commercial is not the issue.

I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.

I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do.

I believe in the absolute and unlimited liberty of reading. I believe in wandering through the stacks and picking out the first thing that strikes me. I believe in choosing books based on the dust jacket.

I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.

Sadness is simply something to be treated with antidepressant meds and otherwise need not be spoken of.

The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.