reliable gift for scabrous opinion made it inevitable that he would find occasion to comment on the controversy generated by Burroughs’ work. By the time he did so, his own fame had continued to rise, climaxing in the much-anticipated publication of In Cold Blood in 1966. With his study of the killing of Herbert Clutter and family by Dick Hickock and Perry Smith in Holcomb, Kansas in 1959, Capote claimed to have invented a new genre, the “nonfiction novel” (culminating in a firsthand account of the murder trial which resulted in Hickock and Smith’s execution six years after the crime). Capote fiercely advocated his new literary form over other contemporary developments in American culture. Interviewed by the Chicago Daily News in 1967, Capote announced “I hate pop artWilliam S. Burroughs 1959-1974, where it is dated July 23 1970.

Jeb
Aug 3 2012
11:43 pm

W.S.M. is,was, a great writer. capote,on the other hand, was a FAG. i wish i could have the the MAN. Rot In Peace…. Dear friend I never met.

Redundant and insulting. Burroughs was not a “credulous believer” in “curses” “at the time.” He was a practicing occultist, exuberant member of several occult organizations, and one of the key instigators of Chaos Magick. He wrote and lectured openly and frequently on magic, consciousness and the occult straight through to the end of his life. It was one of the primary influences on his work, with Gnosticism in particular informing virtually everything he wrote. That so many literary essayists and biographers are embarrassed on his behalf and feel