Comments on: The Top 23 Most Interesting Burroughs Collectibles

By: MR DAVID OHLE

MR DAVID OHLE — Sat, 06 Jul 2019 21:53:13 +0000

Would like to sell pair of Nike Air Max sneakers once owned by Burroughs, given to him when he was filming a commercial for Nike. I have the provenance of the ad from Burroughs estate.

By: richard cupidi

richard cupidi — Sun, 16 Sep 2018 10:16:36 +0000

Eric & Jed and friends –
I am reducing my archives including Burrough’s. From this list of rarities I have copies of Urgency Ripoff Press edition of “Time”, Suck, Olympia Naked Lunch, and the last official Unicorn copy of Ali’s Smile with a mint copy of the vinyl. Contact me at richard.cupidi@gmail.com if you are seriously interested. …

By: Stephen Whitter

Stephen Whitter — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 02:53:59 +0000

Looking forward to it…..

By: Chan

Chan — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 16:07:35 +0000

I lived in Kansas City in the mid to late nineteen nineties, overlapping a sort of second or third Burroughs fame dynasty. Of all the so-called “Beats”, only Burroughs resonated as contemporary – a writer of tactical nonsense and imbued with a timeless “no f*cks given” attitude. Kerouac and the well known exponents seem very much of their generation in comparison…old fashioned even – only Burroughs wrote in the stylistic of the future – and at some point I was born, grew up, and found myself living in relative proximity to him and I knew it. All of my friends got to meet him at some point, had stories to tell. I even had an ex-girlfriend that would drive to Lawrence once a month to have dinner, she got to know him so well. As for me, the closest I came was a reception for his gallery showing on 22 November 1997 – my 22nd birthday actually – and he didn’t show up because he had a cold. Alas, death needs Time for what it kills to grow in…for ah Pook’s sweet sake.

By: Jürgen Ploog

Jürgen Ploog — Mon, 16 May 2016 21:48:48 +0000

That’s a full load, Jed. You are at the wheel of a tanker ready to be raided by the word guerilla. Unfortunately, it’s been quiet on that front. I salut you for trying to quickstart the next step.

By: Kate

Kate — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 19:14:12 +0000

Very cool site and mission!

Wondering, which Burroughs book does that first quotation come from? “Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts”?

Thank you again!

By: Jeff Ball

Jeff Ball — Sat, 07 Nov 2015 22:18:30 +0000

In February of 1992, PRINCE OF TIDES was no. 2 on the Washington Post’s paperback bestsellers list. Naked Lunch was no. 7. It all makes sense now.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 20:51:09 +0000

Great intro describing your fascination with lists.

Also, “the ephemeral is now and forever” is genius. It must be on a gravestone somewhere–if not on Andy Warhol’s, it should be!

Mike

By: dan lauffer

dan lauffer — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 03:10:41 +0000

Re: The list, Consider the principle of wabi-sabi.As Koren presents it, this is the aesthetic of things imperfect, impermanent and incomplete. It values an old cracked handmade tea pot over a shiny new one. In books it is the opposite of seeking only an unblemished copy with a flawless dust jacket. There is the possibility that a battered copy will yield unexpected qualities.

By: Jim Pennington

Jim Pennington — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 20:25:43 +0000

What a beautiful tease trailer, Jed.
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