Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Gilbert Sorrentino’s “Prose of Our Time” from Floating Bear #30 (1964) Burroughs: Clue here is that he is not a writer, he merely writes. Doesn’t care about the overall pattern, if he enjoys writing it, in it goes, Naked Lunch the most dazzling…
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Gilbert Sorrentino to Leroi Jones (1961)
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Gilbert Sorrentino to Leroi Jones, April 5, 1961, published in Floating Bear #11 Just before I left Dillon’s last night you and Joel were talking abt this Burroughs stuff in the last issue of The Bear — that Joel cdnt read it, etc….
Gilbert Sorrentino on William S. Burroughs
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Issue 30 of Floating Bear (November 1964) contains a text by Gilbert Sorrentino which gives his impressions of the prose writers of the day. Here are a transcription of his comments on William Burroughs and a scan of his entire article. Sorrentino on…
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Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Several years ago, I wrote on the potential joys of collecting Charles Olson. Olson loomed as a literal giant over the small press and little magazine scene from 1950 until his death in 1970. As a result, his work appeared in some of…