An Archive of Materials by and about Jacques Stern Including the Complete Text of The Fluke William S. Burroughs had known Jacques Loup Stern for little more than a year when he declared the man a “great writer.” Writing from the Beat Hotel in Paris on June 8, 1959, Burroughs reported to Allen Ginsberg that…
Tag: Jack Kerouac
Rhinozeros 5
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Rhinozeros #5 Front cover Rhinozeros #5 “Song” by David Meltzer Rhinozeros #5 “Song of the Tusk” by Anselm Hollo Rhinozeros #5 “Attention!” by Gregory Corso Rhinozeros #5 Poem by Michael McClure Rhinozeros #5 “An Africa Ode” by Edward Dorn Rhinozeros #5 “Spel 1”…
Review of Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg at the National Gallery
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting I have lived and worked in the Washington DC area for over 15 years and have yet to take full advantage of all the opportunities DC’s museums offer. Hell, they’re free and air-conditioned; what more could you want on a stifling day in…
Beat Critics
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting The Beat Studies Association webpage has made available many of the papers from the Beat Generation Symposium (October 10-11, 2008) at Columbia College in Chicago. Kudos to The Beat Studies Association for putting the papers online. The Association was formed in 2004 to…
William Burroughs in Mademoiselle
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting On the flipside of the men’s magazine is the fashion magazine. The porno industry represents the seedy underbelly of the seemingly glamorous fashion industry. Both worlds expressed an interest in the Beats in the 1950s and 1960s. In her landmark memoir, Minor Characters,…
Kerouac’s On the Road: The Beats and the Post-Beats
Birmingham University, 12-13 December 2008 by Oliver Harris The Birmingham conference came a year too late for the fiftieth anniversary of On the Road‘s first American publication, but arrived conveniently on time for its fitieth British publication — a handy delay, because it allowed discussion to focus on the appearance of last year’s highly controversial…
Jack Kerouac: Back On the Road at the Barber Institute
Birmingham, 5 December 2008 by Oliver Harris Carolyn Cassady shudders and says the same thing she did the last time we met, “Burroughs? That degenerate…” Actually, it’s an effort to disguise my satisfaction at this put down. After all, I’m here at the Barber Institute as the Burroughsian outsider to the exhibition of Jack Kerouac’s…
The Holy Shit of Burroughs and Kerouac
Plenary Address given by Oliver Harris to the Conference “Kerouac’s On the Road: The Beats and the Post-Beats” Birmingham University, 13th December 2008 I took it for granted that I was invited here to cause trouble … not that I have a reputation for being difficult or dangerous, but William Burroughs certainly does, and in a…
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting For the obsessed, the pursuit of the subject of fascination inevitably ends in minutiae. If that subject is an author, it means that the entire bibliography has been analyzed and devoured. The secondary sources have been exhausted. The pursuit has bled over into…
Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac On the Road
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting On entering the New York Public Library on 42nd Street and 5th Avenue, the first thing you see is Jack Kerouac’s name lit up in neon. Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, the headlining exhibit at the library, is clearly a big…
Remembering Jack Kerouac
Louisville: White Fields Press 1994, a broadside with Burroughs’ reflections on his friend Kerouac, along with a photo taken by Allen Ginsberg. Issued in an edition of 26 lettered copies signed by Burroughs. _____ an edition of 49 numbered copies signed by Burroughs. _____ a trade edition of 500 numbered copies. There were also some…
Photos and Remembering Jack Kerouac
Louisville: White Fields Press 1994, stapled pictorial wraps, issued in an edition of 26 lettered copies signed by Burroughs. Photos of Burroughs by Allen Ginsberg, text about Kerouac by Burroughs. _____ an edition of 49 numbered copies signed by Burroughs. _____ 250 copies comprising the trade edition, neither signed nor numbered. This bibliography of A-List…
Yugen
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…