Kulchur

Kulchur 4

Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Onward, as Robert Creeley would say. Let’s move to Kulchur 4. What strikes me about this issue is Burroughs and Kerouac’s picture on the cover. Gilbert Sorrentino guest-edited this issue. In his essay in The Little Magazine in America collection, Sorrentino writes, “Marian…

Kulchur 3

Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting I have not read all twenty issues of Kulchur cover to cover, but of the issues I have sampled, I enjoy Kulchur 3 the most. Issue 3 presents Kulchur at its most Beat. William Burroughs (“In Search of Yage”), Jack Kerouac (“Dave”), Gary…

Kulchur and “The Conspiracy”

Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Yugen, Floating Bear, Kulchur. I always think of these three magazines together. One reason for this is the editorial and creative presence of the then Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka). The other impetus behind these magazines is Donald Allen’s New American Poetry Anthology or,…

Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Kulchur 1 (View complete issue)(Spring 1960)Editor Marc Schleifer; Managing Editors: John Fles, Charles Olson, Leroi Jones, Martin Williams, Donald Phelps. Cover by Stephen Solosy. Selected Contributors: William Burroughs (“The Conspiracy”); Allen Ginsberg (“Paterson”; Diane Di Prima (“Whims”); Charles Olson (“Pieces of Time”; Basil…

Kiss and Couch

Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Rolling Stone magazine just celebrated its 1000th cover with a tribute to / touching up of the legendary Sgt. Pepper album cover. Reportedly, the new cover cost over $1 million to produce. It is fun and interesting, but I doubt it will reach…