Living with Legends

If you can’t get a permanent room at the Chelsea, don’t kill yourself yet.  William Burroughs’ old cabin in Kansas is for sale on E-Bay.  Its been surrounded with wooden decks and in every other possible way yuppified, and would no doubt be unrecognizable to Burroughs today.  But at least it still has the basement where old Bill used to store his windsurf boards!  It comes complete with a (no doubt exhaustive) William Burroughs book collection, and is priced to move at $159,950.  Oh, and homeowner’s dues are a rock bottom $15.00 for which you get hamburgers and hotdogs at the annual cookout.  No word yet on the local cost of the obligatory heroin.  (This far out in the sticks you might have to settle for OxyCotin, “hillbilly heroin.”  If so, it may be best to stay in NY, close to your reliable sources.)
The wealthy sellers – who have probably never even tried heroin! – have even given the cabin a cutesy nickname.  They call it “Mugwump Heaven.” (via Luxist)

In other dead-author’s-homes-for-sale news, the Dorothy Parker Society reports that Parker’s former home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania is on the market.  What Fresh Hell Is This!