by Marcus D. Niski Johnny Strike, St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, May 2010, photo by Gregory Ego Johnny Strike is a longtime Burroughs aficionado, writer, guitarist, and founding member of San Francisco’s proto-punk band Crime. Strike attended one of Burroughs’ renowned Naropa Workshops and later interviewed Burroughs for Headpress 25: Flicker Machine: The William Burroughs Edition….
Tag: Herbert Huncke
The Writer’s Notebooks of Herbert Huncke
by Marcus D. Niski “Whatever one might say of him [Huncke], he was unmistakably a writer.” — Raymond Foye “I want to see what makes the world tick, naturally. God, I’ve spent so many years grinding it out, the least I can do is to try to look for something along the way…” — Herbert…
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…
Jan Herman as Journalist
Jan HermanGinsberg’s Poetics: From Illusion to EnlightenmentInterview with Allen Ginsberg in Boulder, ColoradoLos Angeles Times24 Feb 1980 Jan HermanBurroughs at 70, His Surrealistic Vision Still CookingReview of Place of Dead Roads Chicago Sun-Times25 Feb 1984 Jan HermanLiterary Saint and SinnerPhone Interview with William S. Burroughs Chicago Sun-Times25 March 1984 Jan Herman“Buried” Novel Comes to LightReview…
The Huncke Connection
Exclusive Interview with Beat Generation Icon Herbert Huncke By Johnny Strike I first traveled to Boulder, Colorado in 1979 to attend a summer course at the Naropa Institute called “Creative Reading.” The teacher was none other than William S. Burroughs. It was a small class of maybe 15 students. Needless to say it was a…