Addicts synonymous

Rock meets Beat head-on as the original cover of William Burroughs' debut novel Junkie is adapted by graphic artist Todd Alcott for a forthcoming collection of music writing by Michael Goldberg

I’VE BEEN a fan of US graphic artist Todd Alcott for some time. He takes old school pulp fiction paperback covers and brilliantly splices them with a rock music theme. The juxtaposition is both eye-catching and amusing: an outstanding postmodern homage to the crime and sex dime store exploitation novels of the 1940s and 1950s.

I was very recently writing…