Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting I find Patti Smith’s adoration of William Burroughs to be over-the-top and quite frankly the mark of a scenster and a poseur. It is high-school type shit. The unpopular girl in the theater club straining with every inch of her personality to become…
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Rock Stars
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting An installment in The Visible Man: A Coffee Table Zine of Photographs of William S. Burroughs Let’s start with a category of photos that does not make the list: Burroughs and rock stars. So let’s go all Casey Kasem and put on blast…
A Daniel Kane 6″ X 9″ Punk Bootleg: A Side: “Everyday I Write The Book” / B Side: “Punk Buy The Book”
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting I distinctly remember seeing Richard Hell prowling around — not at the New York City Book Fair at the Armory on Park Avenue but at the satellite fair on 18th Street. If you are hitting the satellite, you have the fever. I was…
William and Joan
A Reminiscence of William Burroughs and a Poem for Joan Vollmer by Oliver Ray It was the early 1990s, NYC, and I was about 21 when I first met old William. There was a friend of mine who knew Ginsberg and brought me down to his apartment on East 12th St, across from the old…