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This Week in Literary History: William S. Burroughs Kills Joan Vollmer in a Drunken Game of “William Tell”
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. On the afternoon of September 6, 1951, in a friend’s Mexico City apartment, a drunk William S. Burroughs pulled out his handgun and (supposedly) said to his wife, Joan Vollmer, “It’s
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