- CountFosco
- Jan 9, 2012
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Welcome back to the Liturgigoon thread, friend.
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The last really good non-fiction book I read before that was You Can't Win by Jack Black, who was a hobo and petty criminal at the turn of the 20th century who was based largely in San Francisco but roamed all over the American west. It's a fascinating book that explains a lot about the criminal underworld and hobo societies of that time, and it was a major inspiration to William S. Burroughs.
Funny coincidence, I'm almost done reading Call Me Burroughs, which definitely mentions this book. It's a pretty illuminating illustration of his life and the beat movement, and presents the author as a brilliant but troubled individual. His work continues to fascinate.
Paul Bowles comes across as just a complete dick, for example.
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