Missing from the editors’ notes
by old exbeat
Posted to What Are You Reading? on 2003-12-11 08:45:00
Parent message is 557453
Missing from the editors’ notes about William’s life in the edited version of Naked Lunch is any reference to the shooting of Joan Burroughs and her death.
You’re right that it was not in the original fiction, but it is also left out of Barry Miles’ notes. Wonder why Miles would leave it out?