Burroughs?

[Michael Bailey]

spermatikos logos -- 2 stories on this page, probably familiar to most
here, the 2nd uses a pseudonym, Ervin...and mentions Burroughs...

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_biography.html

Not only was Ervin open and generous, he also was somewhat protective
of my youthful morals. I say this because while he was working on his
third massive novel with all its layered transparencies, I noticed he
was holding in hand a copy of Junky (1953) by William S. Burroughs.
When I asked to look at the book. Ervin refused my request bluntly,
but he was just trying to be kind, as if he were trying to preserve my
innocence. He told me I wasn't ready for this kind of book. I caught a
glimpse of the title and sometime later I read the sinister lines
about anal fixations bent over in a public restroom with a bar of
soap, getting a fix on patches of skin out of public view. Not only
did I read the book, but had the occasion, about 30 years later, to
smoke one with its old beady-eyed author, the man with a quirk of a
smile and a quiet mien. Ervin had been right to protect my mind from
the sordid depths!