Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting #23: The Dead Star. Nova Broadcast #5 published by Jan Herman (1969). An Installment in Jed Birmingham’s series of the The Top 23 Most Interesting Burroughs Collectibles. Sometimes you have to start at the very beginning in order for anything to make sense….
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Review of Malcolm Mc Neill’s Memoir of William S. Burroughs
by Jan Herman Malcolm Mc Neill, Observed While Falling and The Lost Art of Ah Pook Is Here Malcolm Mc Neill‘s spellbinding memoir Observed While Falling chronicles his seven-year collaboration with William S. Burroughs on an unfinished graphic novel that centered on the Mayan death god Ah Pook. It is so lucid, the insights so penetrating, that…
Nothing Here Now But the Lost Recordings
The Lost Tapes of Carl Weissner, Claude Pélieu and Mary Beach, 1967-1969 by Edward S. Robinson For academics and fans alike, the archives of the pivotal beat triumvir of William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac have long been a source of fascination and a continued wealth of lost texts. Despite the excavation of a…
Weissneriana
“Demolition Plan 23” Text by Carl Weissner, International Times 60 (July 18-31, 1969) Fruit Cup: No. Zero Includes cut-up by Carl Weissner, “Historia de Chiquita D.,” published by Beach Books, New York, 1969 Download Complete Fruit Cup Fruit Cup: No. Zero Includes cut-up by Carl Weissner, “Historia de Chiquita D.,” published by Beach Books, New…
Carl Weissner in Books and Pamphlets
Braille Film Published by Nova Broadcast Press, San Francisco, 1970, with a “counterscript” by William S. Burroughs. BUKOWSKI: I read it from all angles. More action than a cowboy movie. All these people driven by something they don’t understand. Obeying orders from hell. PELIEU: Prose infra-rouge, électronique…Livre magnifique, à la porte du Night Club de…
Jan Herman and the Fold
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting At the DC Book Fair I was pleasantly surprised to see a small collection of books about the Beats huddled together at a book dealer’s stall. Interesting Beat books are few and far between in the nation’s capital. So what if they were…
Yes, Prince, Clear Surprise!
by Jan Herman Dan rolled the cigarette tight and a black flame rose in his dim eyes. Carl, making certain not to lose ground, waved him through the dangerous opiate into the ESP room. Dan put his cigarette into the blue ends of his imagination possessed by windfalls of moisture and disarming affability. It was…
A Dangerous Opiate
by Jan Herman The country was overrun by “shakers” and phosphorescent moisture. A new revelation which was carried as straight news they way they will in the TV studios. And the Senator on W-O-R-D radio. “There is no safety this side of the grave,” he says. It seems any judge or any senator can do…
Jan Herman as Writer
In Answer to Questions from Jean-Jacques Lebel Jan HermanIn Answer to Questions from Jean-Jacques LebelThe San Francisco Earthquake 31968 Jan HermanIn Answer to Questions from Jean-Jacques LebelThe San Francisco Earthquake 31968 Jan HermanIn Answer to Questions from Jean-Jacques LebelThe San Francisco Earthquake 31968 Jan HermanIn Answer to Questions from Jean-Jacques LebelThe San Francisco Earthquake 31968…
Jan Herman as Publisher of Nova Broadcast Press
Nova Broadcasts Ray BremserDrive Suite Nova Broadcast 11969 Download Complete Broadcast Wolf VostellMiss Vietnam Nova Broadcast 21969 Download Complete Broadcast Dick HigginsA Book about Love & War & Death Nova Broadcast 31969 Download Complete Broadcast Liam O’GallagherPlanet Noise Nova Broadcast 41969 Download Complete Broadcast William BurroughsThe Dead Star Nova Broadcast 51969 Download Complete Broadcast Norman…
Jan Herman as Publisher
The San Francisco Earthquake The San Francisco Earthquake 1 1967 Contains William S. Burroughs, “Word Authority More Habit Forming Than Heroin” (C175) The San Francisco Earthquake 21968 Contains William S. Burroughs, “Salt Chunk Mary” (C217) and “Last Awning Flaps on the Pier” (C218) The San Francisco Earthquake 31968 The San Francisco Earthquake 41968 Contains William S….
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…
Jan Herman as Artist
Jan Herman“This Is My Song” CollageVDRSVPNova Broadcast Press1969 Fantastic Architecture Something Else Press 1971 Ed Sanders“Hairy Table” Design by Jan HermanKaleidoscope (Milwaukee underground paper)19 Sept 1970Reprinted from San Francisco Earthquake 4 Jan Herman“Deadline Telegram” Mark in Time: Poets & Poetry / San FranciscoGlide Publications1971 Jan HermanNixon’s Banquet Collage1972 Jan HermanNotre Dame de Vidéo Video1972 Jan…
Bulletin from Nothing
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting None of us obsessed with William Burroughs are fascinated by the same writer. Like the agent / addict’s face in Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly, our impressions of Burroughs are constantly in flux. When I first fell under Burroughs’ spell, I wanted…
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…
Burroughs Readings
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting RealityStudio bills itself as a virtual community and for the past year, I have been chronicling Burroughs’ place in the international post-WWII avant-garde. In the forum, RealityStudio members have been discussing the current climate for the arts and speculating pm its direction in…
The Book of Breething
Ingatestone, Essex, UK: OU Henri Chopin 1974, one of 50 copies signed by Burroughs and hand-numbered in Roman numerals comprising the “deluxe presentation,” bound in wraps. _____ one of 350 copies in wraps. The colophon calls for these to have been numbered, though apparently none were. Berkeley: Blue Wind Press 1975, an edition of 250…
Brion Gysin Let the Mice In
[M&M A22] West Glover, VT: Something Else Press 1973. A curious collaboration in which the authorship is attributed to Gysin with “texts by William Burroughs & Ian Sommerville, edited by Jan Herman” according to jacket copy. One of 500 copies hardbound in dust jacket. Technically this should probably be a B item because of Burroughs’…
The Dead Star
[M&M A14] San Francisco: Nova Broadcast Press 1969, printed stapled wrappers which fold-out accordion fashion, one of 2,000 copies, first separate printing of this piece which originally appeared in a different form in Jeff Nuttall’s My Own Mag. Maynard & Miles A14. This bibliography of A-List publications by William S. Burroughs derives from Eric C….
Jan Herman and William S. Burroughs
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting It was in 2006 that Jed Birmingham wrote the following text about the relationship between William S. Burroughs and Jan Herman, publisher, writer, artist, and connoisseur of the cut-up. It is with tremendous pleasure that RealityStudio now uses that text as the introduction…
Burroughs / Balch Video Experiment
Video Experiment with William S. Burroughs and Antony Balch by Jan Herman Introduction by RealityStudio In December 1971 Jan Herman visited William S. Burroughs at his Duke Street flat in London. He brought along a video camera — still a novel item at the time — and put it to good use. He made three…
Roundup at the O.P. Corral
Thoughts on Brion Gysin and Wyndham Lewis By Jan Herman I wrote the following article in the summer of 1971. I’m tempted to rewrite it, mainly to improve the prose and eliminate the foolishness. Despite its deficiencies, I offer it here with minor corrections for two reasons though it may be no more than a…