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What’s New
Christophe Becker offers two new installments of his Cyberkampf series: Cyberkampf, part IV: We Will Rise Up to Take Back the Screen offers a new interview with filmmaker Klaus Maeck and Cyberkampf, part V: Fire and Brimstone and then Some offers an interview with musicia Denis Karimani aka Remute.
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Oliver Harris is putting out a call for contributors for a book he is coediting with Davis Schneiderman and Alex Wermer-Colan. The book is to be called William S. Burroughs in Context and will be published by Cambridge University Press.
“This collection asks for pieces that weave together the thematic connections between Burroughs’ biography, his fictional universe, his artistic practices and methods, and the larger historical, philosophical issues at play.”
Read the Call for Contributors to learn more and reach out to Oliver Harris (oliverharris@mac.com) to contribute.
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Cut-Ups@2023 in Paris is looming on the horizon. The conference is the “post-Covid version of CUT-UPS@60, an EBSN Special Conference that was scheduled to happen in 2020 to mark the 60th anniversary” of the cut-up. The conference, which promises to be a “major multidisciplinary occasion,” will take place at the University of Chicago Center in Paris from September 12-15 2023.
Head on over to the European Beat Studies Network website for more info. See you there!
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Sections
- Bibliographic Bunker by Jed Birmingham
- Texts by William S. Burroughs
- Interviews
- Biography
- Scholarship
- Criticism
- Bibliography by Eric Shoaf
Archives
- APO-33 by William S. Burroughs
- Arcade
- Black Mountain Review
- Burroughs in Men’s Mags
- Burroughs Text in January 1960 Mademoiselle
- Bulletin from Nothing
- C Press
- Cleft
- Evergreen Review
- Floating Bear
- Fuck You Press
- Intrepid
- Kulchur
- The Last Times
- Lines
- Locus Solus
- My Own Mag
- Nomad
- Nova Broadcast
- Rhinozeros
- Time by William S. Burroughs
- The Word (Naked Lunch Outtake) in Swank
- Yugen
Authors
Publications
- Death in Paris by Carl Weissner
- The Fluke by Jacques Stern
- Flesh Film by Jürgen Ploog
- Retaking the Universe by Davis Schneiderman, Philip Walsh, Edward S. Robinson
- The Road to Interzone: Reading William S. Burroughs Reading by Michael Stevens
Popular
- Secrets of the Olympia Press Naked Lunch
- The Mouth Inside: The Voices of Naked Lunch by Ian MacFadyen
- Burroughs / Balch Video Experiment by Jan Herman and William S. Burroughs
- Enter Mister Maurice by William Levy
- Burroughs in London by Heathcote Williams
- Towers Open Fire Screenplay
- William S. Burroughs and J.G. Ballard
- A Word Is a Word Is a Collage (1965)
- William S. Burroughs, Jacques Stern, and The Fluke
- Confusion’s Masterpiece: Re-Editing William S. Burroughs’ First Trilogy by Oliver Harris
- From Dr Mabuse to Doc Benway: The Myths and Manuscripts of Naked Lunch by Oliver Harris
- Cutting up the Archive: William Burroughs and the Composite Text by Oliver Harris
- A Visit to William S. Burroughs at the Beat Hotel in Summer, 1958 by Gael Turnbull
- Death in Paris by Carl Weissner
- Hikuta!: Burroughs and His Guns
- William S. Burroughs and Joy Division
- Henry Miller and William Burroughs: An Overview
The Top 23 Most Interesting Burroughs Collectibles
- #23: The Dead Star
- #22: Am Here Books Catalogue 5
- #21: Man’s Wildcat Adventures (Podcast)
- #20: The Exterminator
- #19: Cyclops
- #18: Semina 4
- #17: Aspen 5+6
- #16: Klacto 23 International
- #15: Suck
- #14: “The Invisible Generation” Poster
- #13: The Olympia Naked Lunch
- #12: Roosevelt after Inauguration
- #11: The Hardiment/Crowder Archive
- #10: The Digit Junkie
- #9: The Soft Machine (Olympia Press Edition)
- #8: Time
- #7: St Valentine’s Day Reading Program
- #6: Call Me Burroughs LP
- #5: The Moving Times Poster, Project Sigma
- #4: Urgency Press Ripoff Edition of Time
- #3: The Fuck You Press APO-33
- #2: My Own Mag #12
- #1: A Descriptive Catalogue of the William S. Burroughs Archive