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| Author | Ian MacFadyen |
| Date | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Subject | Ian MacFadyen discusses William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Third Mind techniques, and the book Perilous Passage with Terry Wilson. |
| Link | Terry Wilson: Cutting Up for Real |
| Author | Matthias Penzel |
| Date | 7 Feb 2012 |
| Subject | Matthias Penzel offers a bibliography of translations by Carl Weissner. |
| Link | A Bibliography of Carl Weissner Translations |
| Author | Jed Birmingham |
| Date | 31 Jan 2012 |
| Subject | Jed solves the mysteries posed by a flyer that hints el hombre invisible would appear at City Lights Books |
| Link | William Burroughs City Lights Flyer |
| Author | RealityStudio |
| Date | 25 Jan 2012 |
| Subject | RealityStudio offers a few thoughts on the passing of Carl Weissner. |
| Link | In Memory of Carl Weissner |
| Author | Jed Birmingham |
| Date | 1 Nov 2011 |
| Subject | Inspired by the New York Art Book Fair, Jed wonders about the existence of certain works announced by Ed Sanders’ Fuck You Press. Were these actual publications or bibliographic teasers and myths? — Updated with additional “cockatrices.” |
| Link 1 | Fuck You Press Cockatrices |
| Link 2 | Fuck You Press Cockatrices – Update |
| Author | Jed Birmingham |
| Date | 1 Nov 2011 |
| Subject | RealityStudio is continually updating its various archives of Burroughs-related material. A number of updates have been added to the Men’s Mag archive in the last year. Be sure not to miss it. |
| Link | Burroughs in Men’s Mags Archive |
| Author | Jed Birmingham |
| Date | 19 Sept 2011 |
| Subject | Mimeo Mimeo 5, edited by Jed Birmingham and Kyle Schlesinger, is now available. Mimeo Mimeo is a forum for critical and cultural perspectives on artists’ books, typography, and the mimeograph revolution. Issue 5 features Larry Fagin, Lyn Hejinian, Charles Bukowski, Robert Creeley, Vamp & Tramp, The Gallery Upstairs, Alice Notely’s CHICAGO and cover art by Buzz Spector. Available now from the Mimeo Mimeo website. |
| Author | Jed Birmingham |
| Date | 19 Sept 2011 |
| Subject | Jed presents scans of a rare offprint featuring four texts by Burroughs previously published in Ira Cohen’s Gnaoua. |
| Link | Pry Yourself Loose and Listen |
| Author | Charles Gatewood |
| Date | 19 Sept 2011 |
| Subject | Burroughs 23 is a deluxe artist’s book featuring photographs of William Burroughs taken in 1975 by Charles Gatewood. |
| Link | Burroughs 23 |
| Author | Jed Birmingham |
| Date | 29 August 2011 |
| Subject | Burroughs means different things to different people. Jed gives his take. |
| Link | My Burroughs |
| Author | Jed Birmingham |
| Date | 27 July 2011 |
| Subject | Jed’s essay on Burroughs’ readings has been updated with a complete scan of the Nova Convention program. His piece on the Valentine’s Day Reading has been updated with two recordings from the reading. |
| Link 1 | Burroughs Readings |
| Link 2 | Valentine’s Day Reading |
| Author | Thom Robinson |
| Date | 11 July 2011 |
| Subject | Thom Robinson explains how, in an unpublished “Open Letter to Truman Capote,” William Burroughs placed a curse on the author of In Cold Blood. |
| Link | In Cold Blood: William Burroughs’ Curse on Truman Capote |
| Author | Bill Butler |
| Date | 28 June 2011 |
| Subject | The American poet and bookseller Bill Butler interviewed William Burroughs in 1965 for this previously uncollected profile, which first appeared in the Guardian newspaper. |
| Link | A Word Is a Word Is a Collage (1965) |
| Author | Edward S. Robinson |
| Date | 9 May 2011 |
| Subject | Edward S. Robinson introduces a rare recording of cut-ups by Carl Weissner, Mary Beach, and Claude Pélieu (which are available for download in mp3 format). Special thanks to Gary Lee-Nova and to Kelly Claude Nairn for the audio and the digitization. |
| Link | Nothing Here Now But the Lost Recordings |
| Author | RealityStudio |
| Date | 4 April 2011 |
| Subject | RealityStudio is thrilled to offer an incredible archive of materials by and about Jacques Stern, whom William Burroughs once called “the greatest writer of our time.” The archive includes the complete text of the legendary novel The Fluke; a previously unpublished foreword by Burroughs; a biographical and critical essay about Stern; Stewart Meyer’s memoir of his first meeting with Stern; mp3 audio of Stern and Burroughs reading from cut-ups; and more. |
| Link | William S. Burroughs, Jacques Stern, and The Fluke |
| Author | Ian MacFadyen |
| Date | 28 Feb 2011 |
| Subject | Inspired by the recent retrospective of Brion Gysin’s artwork, Ian MacFadyen offers a brilliant meditation on language, magic, the cut-up, the dream machine, calligraphy, Aleister Crowley, and the other preoccupations of Gysin’s art. The text also includes an interview with Terry Wilson on the subject of Hassan Sabbah. |
| Link | A Trip from Here to There: Homage to Brion Gysin |
| Author | Thom Robinson |
| Date | 7 Feb 2011 |
| Subject | Thom Robinson describes how a visit to the archive at the New York Public Library expanded his conception of Burroughs’ work. |
| Link | Thoughts on the Burroughs Archive |
| Author | RealityStudio |
| Date | 4 Feb 2011 |
| Subject | RealityStudio has updated its archives of work by Charles Plymell with rare materials from NOW, including the manuscripts of William Burroughs’ contributions, and images of The Last Times, which included Burroughs’ text “Day the Records Went Up.” |
| Link 1 | Charles Plymell and NOW |
| Link 2 | Archive of Charles Plymell’s The Last Times |
| Author | RealityStudio |
| Date | 25 December 2010 |
| Subject | RealityStudio has been continuing to flesh out its archives of important small mags. There is now an archive of Arcade that includes scans of the entire first issue. The Yugen archive now includes two complete issues, and the Kulchur archive contains one complete issue. All of these feature contributions by William Burroughs. The archive of anthologies has also been updated with scans contributed by BigCrux. |
| Link 1 | Arcade Archive |
| Link 2 | Kulchur Archive |
| Link 3 | Yugen Archive |
| Link 4 | William Burroughs in Anthologies |
| Author | Oliver Harris |
| Date | 10 October 2010 |
| Subject | In the text of his recent talk at Columbia University, Oliver Harris describes the confused history behind the writing and publishing of William S. Burroughs’ Junkie, Queer, and Yage Letters. Professor Harris also responds to a few interview questions about his work on the new edition of Queer. |
| Link | Confusion’s Masterpiece: Re-Editing William S. Burroughs’ First Trilogy |
| Author | Charles Gatewood |
| Date | 22 Sept 2010 |
| Subject | In an excerpt from his nearly completed memoir Dirty Old Man, photographer Charles Gatewood describes meeting William Burroughs, photographing him for Rolling Stone, and asking him to write an introduction for his book Sidetripping. |
| Link | William S. Burroughs, Charles Gatewood, and Sidetripping |
| Author | Dave Moore |
| Date | 10 Sept 2010 |
| Subject | Dave Moore’s incomparable gallery of William Burroughs book covers has moved to a new location. |
| Link | Dave Moore’s Gallery of Burroughs Book Covers |
| Author | RealityStudio |
| Date | 5 August 2010 |
| Subject | Although his work defied genres and most readers consider him a novelist, William S. Burroughs also wrote poetry. With a small compilation that includes cut-ups and permutations, RealityStudio is beginning what will be an ongoing attempt to collect Burroughs’ poetry. This compilation also includes an insightful essay by scholar Oliver Harris titled “‘Burroughs Is a Poet Too, Really’: The Poetics of Minutes to Go.” |
| Link | The Poetry of William S. Burroughs |
| Author | Edward S. Robinson / Jürgen Ploog |
| Date | 28 June 2010 |
| Subject | RealityStudio is very proud to present Flesh Film, a book-length cut-up by Jürgen Ploog, friend and collaborator of William S. Burroughs. With an introduction by Edward S. Robinson, author of the forthcoming Shift Linguals: Cut-Up Narrative from William S. Burroughs to the Present. |
| Link | Flesh Film |
| Author | Dave Teeuwen |
| Date | 27 May 2010 |
| Subject | Victor Bockris talks Burroughs, Warhol, Punk, selling out, dope, glamor, and the difficult art of biography. |
| Link | Interview with Victor Bockris on William Burroughs |
| Author | Gael Turnbull |
| Date | 19 May 2010 [1958] |
| Subject | Vacationing in Paris in the summer of 1958, the Scottish poet Gael Turnbull kept a journal documenting his visits to William Burroughs and Gregory Corso at the Beat Hotel. |
| Link | A Visit to William S. Burroughs at the Beat Hotel in Summer, 1958 |
| Author | Oliver Harris |
| Date | 21 November 2009 |
| Subject | Oliver Harris looks at the relationship — or non-relationship? — between Naked Lunch and San Francisco in a transcript to the talk given at the San Francisco Art Institute during the NL@50 homage. |
| Link | The Frisco Kid He Never Returns: Naked Lunch and San Francisco |
| Author | Oliver Harris |
| Date | 26 October 2009 |
| Subject | Oliver Harris dissects the myths behind the creation of Naked Lunch in a transcript to the talk given recently at Columbia University during the NL@50 homage. |
| Link | From Dr Mabuse to Doc Benway: The Myths and Manuscripts of Naked Lunch |
| Author | Jed Birmingham |
| Date | 10 September 2009 |
| Subject | Charles Bukowski wrote on an Apple computer. William Burroughs apparently didn’t use a computer at all. Jed offers some thoughts on writers, their machines, and literature in the digital age. |
| Link | Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, and the Computer |
| Author | Jed Birmingham |
| Subject | RealityStudio has a vast archive of incredible Burroughs and small-press rarities that includes complete scans of William S. Burroughs’ Time and APO-33, as well as a number of little mags. |
| Link 1 | William S. Burroughs’ Time |
| Link 2 | William S. Burroughs’ APO-33 |
| Link 3 | Complete My Own Mag Archive |
| Link 4 | Fuck You Press Archive |
| Link 5 | Kulchur Archive |
| Link 6 | Floating Bear Archive |
| Link 7 | Rhinozeros Archive |
| Link 8 | Locus Solus Archive |
| Link 9 | Evergreen Review Archive |
| Link 10 | Burroughs in Men’s Mags Archive |
| Link 11 | The Word (Naked Lunch Outtake) in Swank |
| Link 12 | Bulletin from Nothing Archive |
| Link 13 | Burroughs Text in January 1960 Mademoiselle |
| Link 14 | Black Mountain Review Archive |
| Author | Carl Weissner |
| Date | 24 July 2009 |
| Subject | RealityStudio is very proud to present a previously unpublished text by Carl Weissner, along with an archive of materials celebrating his achievements in the avant-garde press |
| Link | Death in Paris by Carl Weissner |
| Author | Tom Peschio |
| Date | 12 March 2009 |
| Subject | Tom Peschio provides an insider’s glimpse of a “dangerous guy” and his guns. |
| Link | Hikuta!: Burroughs and His Guns |
| Author | RealityStudio |
| Date | 29 May 2008 |
| Subject | Literary references are frequent in the work of seminal post-punk band Joy Division, and singer Ian Curtis greatly admired William Burroughs in particular. Both the band and the author appeared at a 1979 performance, after which Curtis introduced himself to the famous author. Was the meeting, as legend has it, a disappointment? RealityStudio pieces together the story with recollections from those who were there… |
| Link | William S. Burroughs and Joy Division |
| Author | RealityStudio |
| Date | 24 March 2008 |
| Subject | To mark the publication of Horror Panegyric, an essay by Supervert (creator of RealityStudio) on their Lord Horror novels, David Britton and Michael Butterworth — writers both and founders of Savoy Books — expand on their thoughts about William S. Burroughs. |
| Link | David Britton and Michael Butterworth on William S. Burroughs |
| Author | Oliver Harris |
| Date | 17 Dec 2007 |
| Subject | Everything Lost, The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs is due to be released on 17 December 2007. In honor of the occasion, Volume Editor Oliver Harris offers the inside story — how the notebook was discovered, deciphered, transcribed, and prepared for publication. (And be sure to order your copy of Everything Lost at Amazon.) |
| Link | Everything Lost, The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs: The Inside Story |
| Author | RealityStudio |
| Date | 18 July 2007 |
| Subject | Astonishingly, the relationship between Henry Miller and William Burroughs has gone largely unmapped in literary scholarship. Seeking to rectify this omission, RealityStudio surveys the relationship of the two writers in an overview and Ian MacFadyen adds further insights in a response. |
| Link 1 | Henry Miller and William Burroughs: An Overview |
| Link 2 | Henry Miller and William Burroughs: A Letter |
| Author | Oliver Harris |
| Date | 11 Jun 2007 |
| Subject | RealityStudio is proud to present the text of a talk recently given by Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris, author of William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination, editor of Burroughs’ letters, Junky: The Definitive Text of “Junk”, and most recently Yage Redux. |
| Link | Cutting up the Archive: William Burroughs and the Composite Text |
| Author | Eric C. Shoaf |
| Date | April 2007 |
| Subject | Eric C. Shoaf, author of Collecting William S. Burroughs in Print: A Checklist, has very kindly contributed his bibliography of books and broadside prints to RealityStudio.Alongside the Maynard & Miles bibliography published in 1978, the Shoaf checklist has long been the most definitive listing of Burroughs publications available. In addition to books and broadsides, the printed checklist also itemizes Burroughs contributions to other books and periodicals, criticism, and miscellanea. This online edition, prefaced and updated by Mr. Shoaf, will no doubt be a tremendous asset to the community of Burroughs scholars and enthusiasts. |
| Link | A William S. Burroughs Bibliography |
| Author | Jan Herman |
| Date | Sept 2006 |
| Subject | Jan Herman has worked all summer with RealityStudio to recover a video experiment he created in 1971 with William S. Burroughs and Antony Balch. Never before seen by anyone but the participants, the video is presented here to the public for the first time. |
| Link | Burroughs / Balch Video Experiment |
| Author | RealityStudio |
| Date | 15 August 2006 |
| Subject | RealityStudio provides a side-by-side comparison of a 1961 Burroughs cut-up and a later version of the (same?) text from The Soft Machine. |
| Link | Transitional Period vs Gongs of Violence |
| Author | Ian MacFadyen |
| Date | 7 Dec 2009 |
| Subject | Ian MacFadyen offers a brilliant meditation on the role of the voice and the mouth in William Burroughs’ magnum opus. Accompanying the text are paintings from Phil Wood’s “Postcards from Purgatory.” |
| Link | The Mouth Inside: The Voices of Naked Lunch |
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