Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting “AJ’s Annual Party” is one of my favorite episodes from Naked Lunch. It is one of Burroughs’ wildest flights of fantasy in the entire novel, with its depiction of a blue movie / snuff film starring Johnny, Mark, Mary, and Steely Dan III…
Tag: Antony Balch
The Lost Boys
William S. Burroughs, Ian Sommerville & Michael Portman by Matthew Levi Stevens A chapter from The Magical Universe of William S. Burroughs, by Matthew Levi Stevens (forthcoming from Mandrake of Oxford, Autumn 2014.) The magical theory of history: the magical universe presupposes that nothing happens unless someone or some power, some living entity wills it…
A Trip from Here to There
Brion Gysin: Dream Machine at the Institut D’Art Contemporain Villeurbanne / Rhone-Alpes. 16 October — 28 November 2010. by Ian MacFadyen “Everybody here comes from somewhere.” — Michael Stipe “Everything was alive like me on this earth, everything was breathing.” — Brion Gysin Gysin Homage One | Burroughs-Gysin Excursus | Gysin Homage Two Gysin Homage…
Letters from William S. Burroughs to Antony Balch
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting William Burroughs met filmmaker Antony Balch in 1962 at the Beat Hotel. Balch made the very Grade-B movies that Burroughs felt create a space between, which provided a modicum of Lebensraum in a Puritan society. Today, Balch is best known for his film…
Burroughs / Balch Video Experiment
Video Experiment with William S. Burroughs and Antony Balch by Jan Herman Introduction by RealityStudio In December 1971 Jan Herman visited William S. Burroughs at his Duke Street flat in London. He brought along a video camera — still a novel item at the time — and put it to good use. He made three…