Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting For the obsessed, the pursuit of the subject of fascination inevitably ends in minutiae. If that subject is an author, it means that the entire bibliography has been analyzed and devoured. The secondary sources have been exhausted. The pursuit has bled over into…
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Mailbag: Process, Damn the Caesars, and Delaware Memoranda
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting You know you have run out of ideas when you write a column about what you received in the mail. But I will scrape the bottom of the inspiration bucket in order to tell you about a few items that came over my…
Don’t Ever Get Famous
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting In the 15 years since I began collecting William Burroughs seriously, I have read a ton of books on Burroughs, post-WWII literature, the book, book collecting, and related topics. I find that five books stand apart in that they completely revolutionized my thinking…