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Documenting Burroughs

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Isaac Fitzgerald

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“Each person can draw something completely different from him because he’s so multifaceted. I think it depends on the reader, but for me, I was first drawn to his awareness of control systems, the government, queer issues, drug control, and the fact that he could critique these things in such a humorous way.”

Jewcy talks Burroughs with Yony Leyser, director of the documentary William S. Burroughs: A Man Within, which features interviews with “Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Gus Vant Sant, John Waters, Jello Biafra and many more.”

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Isaac Fitzgerald
Isaac Fitzgerald has been a firefighter, worked on a boat, and was once given a sword by a king, thereby accomplishing three out of five of his childhood goals. Formerly of The Rumpus and McSweeney’s and most recently the founding editor of BuzzFeed Books, Isaac is now the co-host of BuzzFeed News’ Twitter Morning Show, #AMtoDM. He also appears frequently on The Today Show to talk books, and is co-author of Pen & Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them and Knives & Ink: Chefs and the Stories Behind Their Tattoos (with Recipes) (winner of an IACP award), and the author of a YA novel and picture book forthcoming from Bloomsbury. He uses Twitter.

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