William S. Burroughs with Debbie Harry, New York City, 1980 Blondie this portrait of Debbie Harry

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Alex Chilton was photographed on the Bowery in 1977

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William S. Burroughs with Debbie Harry, New York City, 1980 Blondie this portrait of Debbie HarryWilliam 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