Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting #12 Roosevelt After Inauguration (Fuck You Press 1964). An Installment in Jed Birmingham’s series of the The Top 23 Most Interesting Burroughs Collectibles. As a Burroughs collector, I am envious of those who collect Bukowski. Back when I was working at Second Story…
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“Blaming the Victim”: The Posthumous Editing of Burroughs and Bukowski and the Swan Song of the Black Sparrow Collectible
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting I. Editing Bukowski and Burroughs Side-by-side comparison of Bukowski manuscript and published poem by Michael Philips. For complete comparison see “The Senseless, Tragic Rape of Charles Bukowski’s Ghost by John Martin’s Black Sparrow Press. I heard whispers that something was rotten in the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Collaborating on the Computer with William S. Burroughs
A Follow-Up to “Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, and the Computer” by Roger Holden I would like to take this opportunity to thank Jed Birmingham for his courteous offer to submit this correction to his essay “Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, and the Computer.” The premise of his essay was that, to his knowledge, Burroughs seems to…
Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, and the Computer
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting 16-bit Intel 8088 chip with an Apple Macintosh you can’t run Radio Shack programs in its disc drive. nor can a Commodore 64 drive read a file you have created on an IBM Personal Computer. both Kaypro and Osborne computers use the CP/M…
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…
The Groff Auction of Bukowski and the Ronan Sale of Beat Literature
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting This piece may be old news as the Groff Auction of Bukowski and the Ronan Sale of Beat Literature took place roughly a month ago, but a look at the financial pages highlights that auctions and collectibles are very much a breaking story….
Anthony Linick on Nomad
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting For background, be sure to read Jed Birmingham’s overview of Nomad. What was the literary landscape at the time Nomad 1 came out in the Winter of 1959? Poetry was emerging from a period in which formal and academic values dominated the literary…
Burroughs and Beats in Men’s Magazines: Introduction
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting In the last few weeks, eBay featured a couple of men’s magazines with William Burroughs appearances. A nice copy of Man’s Wildcat Adventures attracted several bidders and sold to a book dealer in California. Later, a copy of the little known British magazine…
Interpol
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting By the late 1950s, literary magazines were much on Burroughs’ mind. He was no longer satisfied with publishing his numerous routines in letters to Allen Ginsberg. Naked Lunch began to take shape as a novel and Burroughs sought a larger audience. Mainstream publishing…
Broadsides
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Recently, I got into a conversation with a book collector friend of mine about collectible broadsides. This discussion forced me to realize that I did not really know what a broadside technically was. I knew one when I saw one. In bibliographic terms,…