Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting The Western Lands. New York: Viking Press, 1987. Norman Mailer’s copy. Inscribed by Burroughs “with gratitude” and dated in the year of publication. Mailer’s annotations in ink. The condition of the book is good. The jacket worn in places with slight tears….
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Fuck You Pentagon March Flyer
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting I have to think that a complete Fuck You Press bibliography would be a monumental task. Take this handbill from the March on the Pentagon in October 1967. It is clearly Ed Sanders’ handwriting and has the trademark Fuck You style, but the…
William Burroughs and Norman Mailer
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Burroughs is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius. — Norman Mailer (1962) Norman Mailer’s assessment lingers around Burroughs like a stale fart. You just cannot get away from it. From the back cover of the Grove…
The Boston Trial of Naked Lunch
Boston, Mass., once the scene of such famous censorship trials as those involving Forever Amber, God’s Little Acre, and, more recently, Tropic of Cancer, again attracted a distinguished gathering of literary luminaries on January 12, 1965, when “A Book Named Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs” found itself the defendant in Boston Superior Court before…