Comments on: Tangier Cut-Up (from Esquire)

By: Jim Pennington

Jim Pennington — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 19:14:06 +0000

“Those who risked their lives and had a lot of fun doing it were Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bowles, Rupert Croft-Cooke, Chris Waklyn, Bill Burroughs, Dave Wollman (your reporter) and Eric Gifford, who now works with the Gibraltar Broadcasting Service.”
Rupert Croft-Cooke!! a nice connection.
http://www.croft-cooke.co.uk/

“He lived in Morocco for fifteen years, from 1953 to 1968……”
wrote “……non-fiction books on such diverse topics as Buffalo Bill, Oscar Wilde, Lord Alfred Douglas, Victorian writers, criminals, the circus,
…”
and his novel:
Wolf From the Door (W.H. Allen, 1969)
is all about someone writing a porn book in Paris that gets banned in London.

By: Gary Lee-Nova

Gary Lee-Nova — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 02:06:30 +0000

I remember reading this piece in Esquire, September/October 1964. I was astonished to find the work of WSB in such a place. Really dug the picture of Father & Son on one of the pages.

Reading it again here and now, for me it resonates with many atmospheres, passages and scenes in the the first Covent Garden Edition of “Port Of Saints” – 1973, and a wee bit with “The Wild Boys” – 1971.

As Mr. Strike notes above, work from this period is explosive!

By: johnny strike

johnny strike — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 02:23:47 +0000

dynamite!