Comments on: Interview with Victor Bockris on William Burroughs

By: Stewart Meyer

Stewart Meyer — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 03:56:26 +0000

The diaries, ‘memory chips & reconstituted pebbles,’ are not yet published. i am re-structuring the text a bit to make it read fluidly. pieces have appeared in the Quality Book Club calender and a few other places, and allen ginsberg refers to the ‘memoirs’ in ‘snapshot poetics.’ ted morgan used my pages to augment the bunker years in ‘literary outlaw; the life and times of william s. burroughs.’ sixteen hand written day books, only a dozen typed up. work to do . . . stewart meyer

By: RealityStudio

RealityStudio — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 04:18:56 +0000

Classic piece by Bockris about WSB:

http://interzone-news.blogspot.com/2010/12/gadfly-on-line-king-of-underground.html

By: Anthony Reynolds

Anthony Reynolds — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:56:24 +0000

I had an interesting Phone relationship with VB =circa 2006 when i was trying to put a deal together with RYKODISC. My idea was to do a boxset consisting of VB’s original Bunker tapes transferred to CD with a book and photos etc. Rykodisc went cold for no reason very suddenly and VB was righteously pissed off. but he was an interestign and amusing character and my admiration for that book and his talent remains…

By: Davee Mac

Davee Mac — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 09:34:34 +0000

great interview – i love Bockris’ energy! Must seek out his Warhol book, i always enjoy dipping into ‘With..’

By: wil

wil — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 08:03:26 +0000

Have those diaries of Stewart Meyer been published??

By: Graham Rae

Graham Rae — Sat, 29 May 2010 14:06:05 +0000

I look at the bitching as simple professional infighting, Mr. Lightfoot, nothing more, from people who have both written Burroughs books.

By: Mr Lightfoot

Mr Lightfoot — Sat, 29 May 2010 10:57:15 +0000

I think Mr Bockris is a little unduly harsh on Mr Morgan. I don’t see what on earth is so awful about being squemish about night long drug parties or wahtever; it’s simply not everyones cup of tea (thank God; I would’nt want my mother or the Prime Minister to get into it, for example.If Mr Morgan takes one (supposedly)extreme/squemish view on Burrough’s drug use then Mr Bockris takes the other extreme view, and between their opinions and the more important evidence laid out in by the books themselves I have long concluded that drugs perhaps played a sometimes useful part in Burrough’s writing yet also messed a lot of it up.

By: Graham Rae

Graham Rae — Sat, 29 May 2010 08:32:51 +0000

I guess this explains why Bockris isn’t doing the Burroughs bio with Grauerholz…

Sorry. Workwordwork brainfart.

By: WilliamLee

WilliamLee — Fri, 28 May 2010 21:17:15 +0000

Thank you very much for this interview! So good to read!

By: RealityStudio

RealityStudio — Fri, 28 May 2010 18:38:29 +0000

It’s Barry Miles, not Victor Bockris, who is collaborating with James Grauerholz on a new biography of WSB.