Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Last month, Alex Wermer-Colan, intrigued by the virtual Bibliographic Bunker, sought out its physical location for a brief twenty-four hours. Specifically, Alex wanted to get direct access to the magazine appearances from 1959-1965 in order to recreate the contemporary encounter with Burroughs and…
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Reports from the Bibliographic BunkerJed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Several years ago, I wrote on the potential joys of collecting Charles Olson. Olson loomed as a literal giant over the small press and little magazine scene from 1950 until his death in 1970. As a result, his work appeared in some of the…