William Burroughs closed his classic debut novel Junky" by saying he had determined to search out a drug he called ' Yage' which he believed transmitted telepathic powers a drug that could be 'the final fix'. In " The Yage Letters"
- a mix of travel writing satire psychedelia & epistolary novel
- he journeys through South America writing to his friend Allen Ginsberg about his experiments with the strange drug using it to travel through time & space to derange his senses
- the perfect drug for the author of the wild decentred books that followed. Years later Ginsberg writes back as he follows in Burroughs' footsteps & the drug worse & more profound than he had imagined."