Anthony Bourdain on the Burroughs and Bowles trail to Morocco

In the 1950s, the original Beats—William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsberg—made their way to Morocco. Writer Paul Bowles was already there, and never really left. Read his Sheltering Sky to see it through his eyes. Tangier is where Burroughs penned most of Naked Lunch, captivated by the "interzone" (international zone) where nothing was true, and everything was permitted. — Read the rest



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