by Edward S. Robinson Introduction It would be beyond countenance to ignore the context of the times we’re living in for framing this essay. A year into a global pandemic, our lives have been dominated by a virus, and never before has — thanks to the all-pervading media, social and otherwise — the collective consciousness…
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Ted Berrigan, Review of Nova Express (1965)
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Ted Berrigan review of Nova Express from Kulchur 18 (1965) It is a thousand years since anyone had intercourse with a delicacy — the least attempt thought of possessing such a delicacy and it is “back to the branches, kid” — But what…
Riding the Nova Express
William Burroughs and the (Post) Modern Experiment by William Weiss … Consider an animal cell over which is running a river of cellular fluid, perhaps lymph or plasma. A virus particle appears in the flux and is carried over the cell surface. Both the cell surface and the virus particle are thick with spikes that…
Three Novels
New York: Grove Press/Black Cat 1980, first printing, includes Soft Machine, Nova Express, and The Wild Boys bound in pictorial wraps. New York: Evergreen 1988, a larger-size edition of the Black Cat printing, bound in wraps. This bibliography of A-List publications by William S. Burroughs derives from Eric C. Shoaf’s Collecting William S. Burroughs in…
Nova Express
[M&M A10] New York: Grove Press 1964, first edition and one of 10,000 copies, hardbound in dust jacket. Maynard & Miles A10a. A new work, part of which was written in collaboration with Ian Sommerville, and part of which uses the “fold-in” method of rearranging text, a variation of Gysin’s cut-up method. New York: Black…
The Death Dwarf in the Street
(Excerpt from Nova Express) William S. Burroughs Biologic Agent K9 called for his check and picked up supersonic imitation blasts of The Death Dwarfs — “L’addition — Laddition — Laddittion — Garcon — Garcon — Garcon” — American tourist accent to the Nth power — He ordered another coffee and monitored the café — A…
Crab Nebula
(Excerpt from Nova Express) William S. Burroughs They do not have what they call “emotion’s oxygen” in the atmosphere. The medium in which animal life breathes is not in that soulless place — Yellow plains under white hot blue sky — Metal cities controlled by The Elders who are heads in bottles — Fastest brains…