William S. Burroughs, Ian Sommerville & Michael Portman by Matthew Levi Stevens A chapter from The Magical Universe of William S. Burroughs, by Matthew Levi Stevens (forthcoming from Mandrake of Oxford, Autumn 2014.) The magical theory of history: the magical universe presupposes that nothing happens unless someone or some power, some living entity wills it…
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Burroughs in London
by Heathcote Williams I first met William Burroughs in 1963. I was working for the now-defunct literary magazine Transatlantic Review and we were planning to publish a piece of his called “The Beginning is also the End.” I’d proposed doing a drawing of Burroughs for the cover and the editor of TR had agreed, and…
A Trip from Here to There
Brion Gysin: Dream Machine at the Institut D’Art Contemporain Villeurbanne / Rhone-Alpes. 16 October — 28 November 2010. by Ian MacFadyen “Everybody here comes from somewhere.” — Michael Stipe “Everything was alive like me on this earth, everything was breathing.” — Brion Gysin Gysin Homage One | Burroughs-Gysin Excursus | Gysin Homage Two Gysin Homage…