А вот тут немного иначе всё это подано
http://www.bookslut.com/features/2005_02_004345.php

Bookslut: I don't think I know that one. I like the Burroughs take on sci-fi -- the Nova Express-era stuff especially.

Dennis Cooper: Yeah, that period of Burroughs is great. The Ticket that Exploded too. That's my favorite Burroughs period.

Bookslut: I like Ghost of Chance a whole lot. You can feel him channeling Joseph Conrad -- it's fun. Actually, I had been hoping to ask you about Burroughs sooner or later. Did you know him well?

Dennis Cooper: No, not well at all. I talked to him at length once. We shared a boyfriend, which caused some problems between us a bit. But we weren't friends. We nodded respectfully at each other, and he was kind about my work, which meant a lot. Being compared so often to Burroughs when I started out bugged me a lot though, cos he wasn't an influence on my work much at all.

Bookslut: I can imagine -- just getting tied to Burroughs, even as a means of praise, must have felt constricting. You said some critical things about his later work in All Ears...

Dennis Cooper: Yeah, I was pissed off at the way he became a kind of transgressive celebrity and exploited himself so much, but that was really anger at the people controlling his career. I just thought the whole quest for fame thing diminished the meaning of his work. But the later work itself, it has its moments.

Bookslut: His Nike commercial wasn't a favorite of yours, then?

Dennis Cooper: That's safe to say. And his appearances as the saint of junkiedom in rock videos and stuff was the worst to me. I really hate heroin. It killed and ruined the lives of a lot of people I love, so it's a sore subject, and I thought it was irresponsible of him.

That's my favorite Burroughs period too)) Мистер Брэдли мистер Мартин - наше всё)))
Спасибо за информацию - может, и некролог пресловутый найдется?

А насчет Грауэрхольца - да я о том же, собственно - Купер явно преувеличивает. =)

Некролог я не нашёл, да и не особо хотел))