Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting An Installment in Jed Birmingham’s series on the The Greatest Burroughs Collectors. #4 is Eric Shoaf. Just as serious readers and scholars are inevitably book collectors, so too are bibliographers. Barry Miles is a great Burroughs collector. No doubt so is Brian Schottlaender….
Tag: Bibliographies
The Blade Runner and The Shootist
by Michael Stevens Two Deleted Entries from The Road To Interzone and the Origin of an Investigation into the Influence, Use, and Appropriation of Other Authors’ Works in the writing of William S. Burroughs I I was in Oklahoma for what was the hot, dry and dusty summer of 1990. It was the summer I read Dostoevsky,…
C Items
Burroughs Contributes to Magazines and Journals by Eric C. Shoaf 1974 1. The Expatriate Review No. 4 (Winter/Spring 1974), Burroughs contributes “Cold Lost Marbles” bound in wraps. 2. National Lampoon February 1974, Burroughs contributes “Strange Sex We Have Known” with co-author Terry Southern, bound in wraps. 3. Rolling Stone Magazine February 28, 1974, Burroughs interviews…
B Items
Burroughs Contributes to Books and Anthologies by Eric C. Shoaf 1974 1. Jean Genet in Tangier by Mohamed Choukri, New York: Ecco 1974, translated by Paul Bowles, first edition, Introduction by Burroughs, hardbound in dust jacket. 2. The Wanderers by Richard Price, New York: Houghton Mifflin 1974, Burroughs contributes a blurb to the front inner…
About Burroughs
Articles and Books About William S. Burroughs by Eric C. Shoaf Items listed here are comprised of interviews with Burroughs, criticism of his writings, stories about him, interactions people had with him, and a catch-all as such for printed material related to Burroughs in some way. The majority of items here are serial titles —…
C Items
Part Two of “Not in Maynard & Miles” by Eric C. Shoaf In many ways, the magazines and serials are much more difficult to document than books because they were so prevalent at the time. Small press publishing took off in the 1960s, and Burroughs would send something from his “word horde” to nearly any…
B Items
Part One of “Not in Maynard & Miles” by Eric C. Shoaf Man Alone: Alienation in Modern Society ed. by Eric and Mary Josephson, (New York: Dell Publishing Inc., 1962), Burroughs contributes “Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness” bound in wraps. Reliefs / Machines: An Exhibition Catalog of Works by Mark Brusse (Arnheim, Holland: Gallery 20,…
Not in Maynard & Miles
The Early Published Burroughs by Eric C. Shoaf The Burroughs bibliography by Maynard & Miles (William S. Burroughs: A Bibliography, 1953-73 by Joe Maynard & Barry Miles, [Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1978], hereinafter referred to as M&M) is subtitled “Unlocking Inspector Lee’s Word Hoard.” And it does just that, gathering the fullness of Burroughs’…
Books and Broadside Prints By William S. Burroughs
A Bibliography by Eric C. Shoaf Junky [1953] Naked Lunch [1959] Minutes to Go [1960] The Exterminator [1960] The Soft Machine [1961] The Ticket That Exploded [1962] Dead Fingers Talk [1963] The Yage Letters [1963] Roosevelt After Inauguration [1964] Nova Express [1964] Time [1965] APO-33: A Metabolic Regulator [1965] So Who Owns Death TV? [1967]…
A William S. Burroughs Bibliography
by Eric C. Shoaf Eric C. Shoaf’s Collector’s Guide is now available in an updated print edition produced by Inkblot Publications. The William S. Burroughs material listed in the A-items section are primary publications and these are arranged in chronological order based on date of first publication of the title. Later printings are noted only…
Burroughs Bibliographies
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting With all the discussion concerning bibliographies, I should mention a few other print bibliographies besides Maynard & Miles and Shoaf’s Checklist. In 1975, Michael B. Goodman published William S. Burroughs: An Annotated Bibliography of his Works and Criticism. This guide usually gets lost…