Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting A-well-a don’t you know about the bird Well, everybody knows that the bird is a word — “Surfin’ Bird,” The Trashmen (1963) Albatross. Dublin, December 1963 Eds. M.L. Lowes & Iain Sinclair Well, it turns out that not everybody, including the world’s most…
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Recollections of Jeff Nuttall and the Production of My Own Mag
by Michael Bartholomew I met Jeff Nuttall round about 1960, when I was 18 years old. I lived in north London and was a member of the Barnet branch of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Jeff was also a member. He was maybe 10 years older than I was. He had a wife and family,…
My Own Mag: A Bibliographic Nightmare
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting My Own Mag is a bibliographic nightmare. There is no general consensus on the correct order of the first eight issues of the seventeen issue run. This might be by design. Nuttall, like Ed Sanders, possessed a devilish air and a flair for…