By Charles Rotmil In 1958, I was living in a room on 10th Street in Manhattan between Fifth and Sixth Avenue. I was paying $6 a week, and a fellow named Dan Balaban collected the rent for the landlord. Each week residents in the building gathered downstairs in Dan’s apartment, a large living room on…
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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…
Henry Miller and William Burroughs: A Letter
by Ian MacFadyen RealityStudio sent the text of Henry Miller and William Burroughs: An Overview to a few friends and scholars for input. While everyone made helpful comments, Ian MacFadyen — currently working on the introduction to the volume of essays that will comemmorate the 50th anniversary of Naked Lunch — replied with a spirited,…
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…
Burroughs Ephemera 1: Olympia Press Catalog
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. It seems everything I come across of late ties into the saga I’ve been documenting in the Bunker. The terminology involved in book collecting can be quite slippery. Even terms as basic as first edition…