Comments on: Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, and the Computer

By: David Michael Holzer

David Michael Holzer — Mon, 12 May 2025 17:32:33 +0000

Still getting my head around the notion of Bukowski trying the cut-up. Fascinating article. Thanks.

By: JC

JC — Sat, 10 May 2025 22:32:10 +0000

“J” you should take a page out of Umberto Eco’s book, see it as an element of your anti-library. “Don’t try.” ;)

By: Matthew Middleton

Matthew Middleton — Tue, 07 May 2019 02:34:25 +0000

Wasn’t Burroughs family behind the Adding Machine and other early computing devices? Computation and computer terminals would have been an important part of all that business..perhaps he was knowingly avoiding the digital?

here is a great online resource of Burroughs Corporation documentation:

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_burroughs

By: Geoff

Geoff — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:16:04 +0000

I wonder if anyone has begun writing poetry or other literature comprised of recovered data from partially erased drives. This would seem a logical next step in marrying the cut-up method with digital technology.

By: tortov

tortov — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 02:32:34 +0000

Whats is the name/author of the article about Sade and computation? I’m really curious now.

Thanks!

By: J

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 18:17:50 +0000

I have an IBM Personal Typewriter which is collecting dust on my file cabinet. I have no use for it and wondering if I should now donate it to the Salvation Army. Any thoughts on this? Thanks.

By: jed

jed — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 01:14:28 +0000

The Collected Bukowski Letter published by Black Sparrow. The Third Volume I believe.

By: ivan suvanjieff

ivan suvanjieff — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:29:24 +0000

where did you get a copy of that letter Buk wrote to me?

By: Marco Raaphorst

Marco Raaphorst — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:45:54 +0000

I was at Rhodos for a week a couple of days ago. reading Bukowski and without an computer. never thought about him using one.

By: Brad Barrish

Brad Barrish — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:27 +0000

Interesting story… I was working at Red House recording studio in Lawrence, Kansas in the mid-90s. I was in the studio with him when he was recording the voice overs for The Dark Eye. The representative from the company that was doing the CD-ROM project was showing Burroughs some animation and I remember very distinctly him watching the computer screen, brushing it off and said something to the effect of “Bah, computers. Bullshit.” or something to that effect. :)