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Barry Miles’s “Call me Burroughs - A Life” reports letters that Burroughs writes to Ginsberg about a sexual encounter he has with underage prostitutes in Tangiers. If this is a reliable source it should be included in the article. <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 01:28, 17 April 2022 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot--> Barry Miles’s “Call me Burroughs - A Life” reports letters that Burroughs writes to Ginsberg about a sexual encounter he has with underage prostitutes in Tangiers. If this is a reliable source it should be included in the article. <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 01:28, 17 April 2022 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

== Audio recordings and discography ==

There should be more info on Burroughs' spoken word recordings in this article: the infobox at the bottom already includes a number of them, but they are either not or barely mentioned in the article. At the least, the albums that are in the infobox should be compiled into a discography in the article, for the sake of consistency. Recordings like ''"The 'Priest' They Called Him"'' especially really exemplify Burroughs' influence in a broad range of media and his legacy, and therefore deserve to be mentioned in the main text.

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How does a man who attended Harvard at 18 drop out nearly ten years later to attempt to join the Navy and/or OSS? The intro needs a re-work.

Yes! Exactly! I read he dropped out on and off over the course of twenty years or so! Then I also read he spent the next twenty years as a drop out! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:8003:554E:7801:CC2E:9B42:447D:EAF4 (talk) 06:58, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

If he was gay, why did he get married to his second wife, Joan? 2.28.151.246 (talk) 23:14, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

He had bi-sexual tendencies. Though he did prefer males over females.

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Barry Miles’s “Call me Burroughs - A Life” reports letters that Burroughs writes to Ginsberg about a sexual encounter he has with underage prostitutes in Tangiers. If this is a reliable source it should be included in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.2.170.22 (talk) 01:28, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

Audio recordings and discography

There should be more info on Burroughs' spoken word recordings in this article: the infobox at the bottom already includes a number of them, but they are either not or barely mentioned in the article. At the least, the albums that are in the infobox should be compiled into a discography in the article, for the sake of consistency. Recordings like "The 'Priest' They Called Him" especially really exemplify Burroughs' influence in a broad range of media and his legacy, and therefore deserve to be mentioned in the main text.

AllArtAfterAll (talk) 13:01, 29 July 2022 (UTC)

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