William S. Burroughs Box 215,Canal St. Station New York, N.Y. 10013 Gerard-Georges Lemaire 13-15 re Paul-Fort 75014 Paris FRANCE 18th Dec. 78 Dear Gerard, Many thanks for your participation in the Nova Convention. In some respects I regret that the event strayed so far from the original conception of a visit to New York by…
Tag: Burroughs Correspondence
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…
Return to Peyton Place
From Package magazine, Spring 1969 Tim Head interviewed by Joe Gilbert, 2 a.m. December 5th 1968 Introduced by Ian MacFadyen The 1969 issue of Package magazine consisted of several A3 stiff paper sheets folded and encased in a white paper bag featuring an ink drawing of a sailor from Battleship Potemkin by Brian O’Toole. It…
William Burroughs and David Solomon
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting I have a theory that if you dig deep enough, take the time to ask the right questions, and do diligent research, everybody is interesting. It is my spin on Andy Warhol’s fifteen minutes. I guess I see the silver lining in the…
Death in Paris
A New Book-Length Text by Carl Weissner And an Archive Celebrating Weissner’s Publications in the Avant-Garde Introduction After going to see the Villa Seurat, where Henry Miller lived when he wrote Tropic of Cancer, we stopped at the Café Zeyer for drinks. The Zeyer, which he described as “a gaudy place with red plush and…
David Britton and Michael Butterworth on William S. Burroughs
David Britton and Michael Butterworth are the founders of Savoy Books. To call Savoy a publishing house is rather like calling Charles Manson a criminal — it’s correct but it fails to account for so much more. A frequent contributor to New Worlds magazine, Butterworth established himself at a young age as an important figure…
Henry Miller and William Burroughs: An Overview
Also see Ian MacFadyen’s insightful response to RealityStudio’s overview: Henry Miller and William Burroughs: A Letter. After finishing with the summer job his father had negotiated for him at the St. Louis Post Dispatch, William S. Burroughs returned to Harvard in September 1935. It was his senior year. An English major, Burroughs had studied with…
Letters of William S. Burroughs, 1945-1959
New York: Viking 1993, first printing, hardbound in dust jacket. A selection from Burroughs’ early letter archive. Edited and with an Introduction written by Oliver Harris. _____ Uncorrected Galley Proof in yellow wraps. London: Picador 1993, first British edition, small first printing of only 1,000 copies, hardbound in dust jacket. _____ 1994, first British printing…