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— Patti Smith"When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel."
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Bizarrely funny... Rarely is a documentary as well attuned to its subject as Howard Brookner's BURROUGHS, which captures as much about the life, work and sensibility of its subject as its 86 minute format allows.
— Janet Maslin
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There is no right or wrong reading of Naked Lunch, though some readings are more common, and thus Burroughs commercial is not the issue.
— Rick Moody
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