James Le Baron Boyle: Camping It Up on Campus
WHILE DELVING into the Berg Collection archive at the New York Public Library, I recently unearthed a postcard sent in 1962 by a professor at the Pennsylvania college I attended. The card was addressed to William S. Burroughs, an old Harvard buddy of his then living temporarily in Paris. Burroughs, it will be remembered, was one of the most colorful figures in the American literary counterculture of mid-20th-century New York.
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