Published in the Fall 2000 Vol. 2, Issue 2 of the literary journal FreeThought, this article describes my visit with WSB at his home in Lawrence, Kansas on February 18, 1995, by far the highlight of my life as a devotee. It is an extraction from extensive notes that I made in the immediate wake of this once-in-a-lifetime experience, with subsequent associations & references. The “Burroughs retrospective” issue of FreeThought containing this article, along with pieces by James Grauerholz, Charles & Pamela Plymell, Anne Waldman, Jeffrey Weinberg & others, is available for purchase at TMB.

Published in the Fall, 1997 Issue 9 of the literary journal Dharma Beat, this is an obituary-tribute that I wrote very soon after WSB’s death, a manifestation of my fresh grieving & deep appreciation for the subject. As published, & reproduced here, the piece is truncated, concluding after an incomplete brief biography that reaches through only the early period of his long & eventful life. I think it is most significant in conveying my immediate shock & sadness, which I’m sure spoke for many others, at the passing of this giant of American letters. The issue of Dharma Beat containing this article is available for purchase at TMB, along with other numbers.