Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Walter Benjamin’s “Unpacking My Library” focuses on acquisition; it dares not speak of the dispersal of books, which must have accompanied Benjamin’s initial packing. Benjamin, an exile and a suicide, knew intimately of things left behind. For a book collector, such decisions, such…
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Jonathan Williams, William Burroughs, and England
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting One of my mantras in book collecting is focus, focus, focus. The problem with living by this credo is that it leaves so many great books out of your collection. There are two books that have obsessed me like the white whale haunted…