by Matthew Levi Stevens Review of Victor Bockris’ The Burroughs-Warhol Connection (Beatdom Books, 2024) So… Victor Bockris, sometime court jester and definitely court-recorder during Uncle Bill’s Bunker years, the counter-culture con-job that was the Nova Convention, go-between for The Bunker and The Factory, and probably the first commentator-with-genuine-access to note the essential similarity between the…
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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…
Dripping Wet in Reykjavik
An Airmail Interview with Carl Weissner by Victor Bockris Coldspring Journal 10April 1976 Dripping Wet in Reykjavik Dripping Wet in Reykjavik Dripping Wet in Reykjavik Dripping Wet in Reykjavik Dripping Wet in Reykjavik Dripping Wet in Reykjavik Dripping Wet in Reykjavik Dripping Wet in Reykjavik Dripping Wet in Reykjavik Dripping Wet in Reykjavik 1974 Letter…
Interview with Victor Bockris on William Burroughs
By Dave Teeuwen Why did you write a book about Burroughs? He’s not nearly as glamorous or popular as most of your other subjects, or was he? At the time I started to write the book, January 1979, William Burroughs was one of the most glamorous and hip people in New York. We were deep…