Links: Burroughs on the presidency, American Pie, Blood on the Tracks.

William S. Burroughs’ 1975 answer to “When Did I Stop Wanting To Be President”: this is the written version, but I most earnestly advise you to play the spoken version first.
Internet FAQ: The Annotated “American Pie”. For bludgeoning arguments into the ground.
Lucian Truscott used to live in the loft of the building Bob Dylan rented practice space in. He got to hear Blood on the Tracks being written.
The top photo is by Harriet Crowder. It only came to light this year, on the cover of the recent LP of Burroughs’ tape recorder cut-up experiments Curse Go Back, put together by Jim Pennington. Jim’s a long-time Burroughsian and this is a project worth your support.