Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting L’Internationale Hallucinex (Maynard & Miles B 56) was published in 1970 by Soleil Noir in Paris. A box containing eight pamphlets, a French translation of William Burroughs “Invisible Generation” in the section titled “Manifestes de la Génération Grise et Invisible.” The pamphlet also…
Tag: Carl Weissner
#16: Klacto 23 International
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting #16 Klacto 23 International September 17, 1899. An Installment in Jed Birmingham’s series of the The Top 23 Most Interesting Burroughs Collectibles. The iconic photo of Carl Weissner, which also happens to be my favorite and the most revealing, is the shot of…
The Library and Deaccession
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Walter Benjamin’s “Unpacking My Library” focuses on acquisition; it dares not speak of the dispersal of books, which must have accompanied Benjamin’s initial packing. Benjamin, an exile and a suicide, knew intimately of things left behind. For a book collector, such decisions, such…
The Anti-Environment of the Cut-Up Authors
by Carl Weissner Environments are not passive wrappings, but are, rather, active processes which are invisible. The ground rules, pervasive structure, and overall patterns of environments elude easy perception. Anti-environments, or countersituations made by artists [“and artists” added by Weissner], provide means of direct attention and enable us to see and understand more clearly. Marshall…
Bibliography of Carl Weissner Translations
by Matthias Penzel Burroughs in German (flyer from Kosmik Blues) 1969 Translation work started proper after Carl’s return to Germany. More or less in the function of Editor for Joseph Melzer Verlag in Darmstadt (between Frankfurt and Heidelberg / Mannheim further south), Carl edited and translated: Cut up. Der sezierte Bildschirm der Worte (Joseph Melzer…
In Memory of Carl Weissner
William Burroughs and Carl Weissner (Photographer Unknown) Carl Weissner began corresponding with William Burroughs in 1965. Seeing that Carl was quick to pick up on his experiments with the cut-up, Burroughs decided to visit Carl in Heidelberg. “I am off to Germany next week,” Burroughs wrote to Brion Gysin on May 27, 1966. “Looks like…
Nothing Here Now But the Lost Recordings
The Lost Tapes of Carl Weissner, Claude Pélieu and Mary Beach, 1967-1969 by Edward S. Robinson For academics and fans alike, the archives of the pivotal beat triumvir of William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac have long been a source of fascination and a continued wealth of lost texts. Despite the excavation of a…
Archive of Charles Plymell’s The Last Times
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting The Last Times was an underground newspaper published in San Francisco in 1967 by poet and printer Charles Plymell. It contained works by William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski, Robert Crumb, Carl Weissner, Claude Pélieu, Mary Beach, Antonin Artaud, and others. Issue…
Dripping Wet in Reykjavik
An Airmail Interview with Carl Weissner by Victor Bockris Coldspring Journal 10April 1976 Dripping Wet in Reykjavik Dripping Wet in Reykjavik Dripping Wet in Reykjavik Dripping Wet in Reykjavik Dripping Wet in Reykjavik Dripping Wet in Reykjavik Dripping Wet in Reykjavik Dripping Wet in Reykjavik Dripping Wet in Reykjavik Dripping Wet in Reykjavik 1974 Letter…
Translations
J.G. Ballard, Liebe + Napalm: Export USA Love & Napalm: Export USA (aka The Atrocity Exhibition), translated by Carl Weissner, front cover Charles Plymell, Panik in Dodge City Panic in Dodge City, translated by Carl Weissner, front cover Charles Plymell, Panik in Dodge City Panic in Dodge City, translated by Carl Weissner, title page Published…
Correspondence
Letter from William Burroughs to Carl Weissner 30 April 1965 Correspondence with Charles Bukowski Letter from Charles Bukowski to Carl Weissner 16 October 1976 This letter appeared at auction on ebay in August 2009. Letter from Charles Bukowski to Carl Weissner 15 Jan 1979 This letter appeared at auction on ebay. Letter from Charles Bukowski…
Carl Weissner in My Own Mag
My Own Mag 12, Page 5 Carl Weissner, “Interior,” May 1965 My Own Mag 13, Page 2 Carl Weissner, “Mailbag Cuttings Re Meeting Suggested in Mag 12,” August 1965 My Own Mag 14, Page 3 Carl Weissner, [Correspondence,] December 1965 My Own Mag 14, Page 10 Carl Weissner, “The Moving Times,” December 1965 My Own…
Weissneriana
“Demolition Plan 23” Text by Carl Weissner, International Times 60 (July 18-31, 1969) Fruit Cup: No. Zero Includes cut-up by Carl Weissner, “Historia de Chiquita D.,” published by Beach Books, New York, 1969 Download Complete Fruit Cup Fruit Cup: No. Zero Includes cut-up by Carl Weissner, “Historia de Chiquita D.,” published by Beach Books, New…
UFO
UFO was a little mag put out by Udo Breger and Expanded Media Editions. Edited by Breger, Carl Weissner, Jürgen Ploog, and Jörg Fauser, it published their work alongside other writers such as William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Claude Pélieu, Mary Beach, Timothy Leary, et al. UFO 1 June 1971 UFO 2 October 1971 UFO 3…
Gasolin 23
In 1971 Carl Weissner, working with Jürgen Ploog and Jörg Fauser, produced the first issue of a new zine called Gasolin. It contained a loose collection of manuscripts, letters, and cut-ups. Subsequent issues would appear intermittently until 1986. As with Klacto, Gasolin 23 was notable for its experimentalism and its quality roster of contributors, which…
Klactoveedsedsteen
Klactoveedsedsteen — the title came from a 1947 Charlie Parker album — was a little mag begun by Weissner in 1965 and distributed through his own PANic Press. Five issues, each in a different format, appeared in two years. The zine was notable for its experimentalism and the quality of its contributors, which included William…
Carl Weissner in Books and Pamphlets
Braille Film Published by Nova Broadcast Press, San Francisco, 1970, with a “counterscript” by William S. Burroughs. BUKOWSKI: I read it from all angles. More action than a cowboy movie. All these people driven by something they don’t understand. Obeying orders from hell. PELIEU: Prose infra-rouge, électronique…Livre magnifique, à la porte du Night Club de…
Jan Herman as Writer
In Answer to Questions from Jean-Jacques Lebel Jan HermanIn Answer to Questions from Jean-Jacques LebelThe San Francisco Earthquake 31968 Jan HermanIn Answer to Questions from Jean-Jacques LebelThe San Francisco Earthquake 31968 Jan HermanIn Answer to Questions from Jean-Jacques LebelThe San Francisco Earthquake 31968 Jan HermanIn Answer to Questions from Jean-Jacques LebelThe San Francisco Earthquake 31968…
Jan Herman as Publisher of Nova Broadcast Press
Nova Broadcasts Ray BremserDrive Suite Nova Broadcast 11969 Download Complete Broadcast Wolf VostellMiss Vietnam Nova Broadcast 21969 Download Complete Broadcast Dick HigginsA Book about Love & War & Death Nova Broadcast 31969 Download Complete Broadcast Liam O’GallagherPlanet Noise Nova Broadcast 41969 Download Complete Broadcast William BurroughsThe Dead Star Nova Broadcast 51969 Download Complete Broadcast Norman…
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…
Beat Critics
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting The Beat Studies Association webpage has made available many of the papers from the Beat Generation Symposium (October 10-11, 2008) at Columbia College in Chicago. Kudos to The Beat Studies Association for putting the papers online. The Association was formed in 2004 to…
Yay!: A Moving Times Supplement (An In-Depth Examination of My Own Mag)
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting In 1963, the Times Literary Supplement announced the arrival of Dead Fingers Talk with a cry of Ugh! Later that year, Burroughs received the first issue of My Own Mag and responded with a resounding, Yes! In Jeff Nuttall, Burroughs found a fellow…
Burroughs Readings
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting RealityStudio bills itself as a virtual community and for the past year, I have been chronicling Burroughs’ place in the international post-WWII avant-garde. In the forum, RealityStudio members have been discussing the current climate for the arts and speculating pm its direction in…
Ali’s Smile / Naked Scientology
Bonn: Expanded Media Editions 1978, text in German and English, translations by Carl Weissner, first printing in wraps. First co-publication of these previously published works. Bonn: Expanded Media Editions 1985, second edition in pictorial wraps more gray than above. Bonn: Pociao’s Books/Expanded Media 2000, fifth edition in new wrapper design. This bibliography of A-List publications…
So Who Owns Death TV?
[M&M A13] San Francisco: Beach Books 1967, small pamphlet in white wrappers stapled at top, this copy of the “first state” of issue with 50ยข price, one of 3,000 printed. Maynard & Miles A13a. A collaboration with Carl Weissner and Claude Pelieu. A variant printing of some 200 copies has black wraps with white lettering…
The Evolution of the Cut-Up Technique in My Own Mag
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting In late 1963, Jeff Nuttall sent William Burroughs the first issue of My Own Mag. In an editorial note on the cover, Nuttall writes tongue firmly in cheek, My Own Mag “will appear every now and then… will be devoted to creations of…
William Burroughs on Cassette
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting For the past several months, pieces from the estate of Allen DeLoach have been auctioned on eBay. These items, including photographs, small press chapbooks, little magazines, and manuscripts, chronicle the counterculture literary scene of the 1960s and 1970s. In my opinion, they rank…
Burroughs in Germany and Belgium
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Living in the Beat Hotel in Paris and traveling around Europe in the 1960s, William Burroughs possessed the opportunity to rub elbows with several avant-garde circles active at the time. Previously, I wrote about Burroughs and his relationship with Scottish literary magazines. In…
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…