Declaring he's “vain and shallow”-“If I were straight, I am certain I would be one of those guys who goes to wet T-shirt contests and votes with great enthusiasm”-he’s quick to strike a pose to admire his silhouette but in his own half-mad way, he's an original, a step aslant of the cutting edge, and wonderfully capable of expressing the miseries and sublimities of detox. This is his story of trying to keep the next drink from coming. He is not, as he would say, the man you’d want operating the cotton gin-he is funny and dark. Burroughs is an alcoholic, a true-blue, two-fisted, drink-till-you-see-the-spiders-on-the-wall alcoholic. Like the alcohol he so enjoys, Burroughs’s story of getting dry will go straight into your bloodstream and leave you buzzing, exhilarated, and wiped out.īurroughs is a malcontented, successful advertising copywriter: in his 20s, gay, living in Manhattan, and owner of a childhood that the word “nightmare” doesn't even begin to cover (as described in Running With Scissors, 2002).
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