The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life

673: A Discussion of William S. Burroughs's Junky, with Matt Peters!


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This episode is a recording of the inaugural meeting of the Kerouac Project of Orlando's Book Club. Matt Peters and I discuss William S. Burroughs's debut novel, Junky, and its place in the first quartet of his transformative works. The setting for this conversation is the place where Jack Kerouac lived when On the Road came out, where he lived when writing the first draft of The Dharma Bums.

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