Greg Bishop on William Burroughs’ attempts to contact Whitley Communion Strieber’s otherworld entities. Now there’s a Saturday Night Live skit I’d like to have seen…
“One night a couple of years ago, I was privileged to have dinner with Whitley Strieber, his wife Anne, and a few other UFO researchers. While there were hundreds of things I wanted to discuss with Strieber, one subject that really interested me was the rumor I’d heard that he had invited William S. Burroughs, one of my favorite authors, to his famous cabin in upstate New York.
Strieber said that Burroughs had indeed visited his retreat in the woods, made famous in the Communion books, not once, but twice as I recall. Apparently, Burroughs wished to encounter the “visitors” firsthand. Unfortunately, nothing notable happened when he was there. Strieber told me that Burroughs was almost overly polite and very curious about the Strieber’s experiences with his “visitors.”
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