William Burroughs's Exhibition

[Robin Landseadel]

Jonathan Jones doesn't like Weird Uncle Bill, loves Pynchon:

	. . . Burroughs is the modern writer adored by people who don't
	read enough modern writing. Everything he did was done better
	by others. Above all, I don't see how anyone's adolescent
	admiration for the Burroughs prose machine can survive an
	encounter with the novels of Thomas Pynchon - the true,
	dazzling titan of the avant garde novel in our time. Pynchon's
	marvellous sentences and immense, arcing fictions have all the
	wit, richness and humanity (even in their utter strangeness) that 	 
Burroughs lacks.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2009/jan/05/william-burroughs-royal-academy-art