by Michael Stevens Thanks to Jed Birmingham’s piece about my book collection from his Burroughs Collectors series on RealityStudio, a member of Jeff Ball’s Burroughs & Associates group on Facebook, Marcus Gray, posted a picture of Burroughs’ bookshelf he had found in Chris Stein’s photo-memoir, Point of View: Me, New York City, and the Punk…
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#5 – Michael Stevens
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting An Installment in Jed Birmingham’s series on the The Greatest Burroughs Collectors. #5 is Michael Stevens. Before the cats and the guns, before the novels, hell, before the drugs, Burroughs was known as a great reader. At least to Kerouac and Ginsberg he…
Road to Interzone
by Michael Stevens RealityStudio is proud to present this digital edition of a key Burroughs reference work, Michael Stevens’ The Road to Interzone: Reading William S. Burroughs Reading. Published by Suicide Press in 2009, Road to Interzone is a bibliography of Burroughs’ reading — an index to the books known to have been read, blurbed,…
The Blade Runner and The Shootist
by Michael Stevens Two Deleted Entries from The Road To Interzone and the Origin of an Investigation into the Influence, Use, and Appropriation of Other Authors’ Works in the writing of William S. Burroughs I I was in Oklahoma for what was the hot, dry and dusty summer of 1990. It was the summer I read Dostoevsky,…
Burroughs Blurbs
A Compilation of Book-Jacket Blurbs by William S. Burroughs It’s always hard to know exactly what to make of the blurbs that authors contribute to the jackets of books written by other authors. Are they sincere endorsements of the quality of a book? Are they fragments of sham praise extorted from friends? Are they recommendations…