The Sultan of Sewers.

• Author: Grauerholz, James
• Position: Letters - Letter to the editor

I was William Burroughs' companion for 23 years, and for about 17 years I have been the executor of his estate. I'd like to send my sincere compliments on Jesse Walker's review of Barry Miles' Call Me Burroughs ("The Sultan of Sewers," July). Very insightful-into Miles' book and into the life and thoughts of William S. Burroughs.

I especially commend his notes on Jack Black's You Can't Win and the role that Rose Wilder Lane played in Black's literary career. As a longtime student of Black's life and works, I strongly suspect that Lane had a hand in the composition of You Can't Win. Also, that it is about 27 percent fanciful. It's a great book all the same.

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