William S. Burroughs with Debbie Harry, New York City, 1980 Blondie Set against a vivid purple

Set against a vivid purple background

in a pairing that captures the easy traffic between literature and pop in downtown New York

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William S. Burroughs with Debbie Harry, New York City, 1980 Blondie Set against a vivid purpleWilliam S. Burroughs and Debbie Harry photographed in New York City in 1980 by Bobby Grossman. Here the Beat novelist William S. Burroughs sits beside Debbie Harry, the frontwoman of Blondie, in a pairing that captures the easy traffic between literature and pop in downtown New York. Burroughs had become a revered figure to punk and new wave musicians, his deadpan presence a fixture of the same Bowery and club world that produced Harry. By 1980