Re-reading Junky for the first time in almost forty years, I am struck by something new. Even if Burroughs had never shifted to his experimental fictional style, he was a highly skilled conventional writer. True, his writing from the beginning was episodic and he never exhibited plotting skills. Nonetheless, his sentences and paragraphs are as …
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NO INDIANS WERE HARMED IN THE SETTLING OF THE AMERICAS. It's now the official position in San Francisco. Just ask the poet laureate of the city, Kim Shuck who has supported this kind of erasure of art that does not please the current identity politics. Fine. Censor it, destroy it, SF. You'll be far to …
Looking at a creative writing magazine called Split Lip, I see a tiny little conflict between "honesty" and "minimizing harm." How you gonna get the kidneys unless you risk a little damage? This crap about "safe spaces" is killing the arts and it has infected magazines everywhere, print and online, private and school-based.
Jedediah Smith 