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Notes on Burroughs (1964) | RealityStudio
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A William S. Burroughs Community. Notes on Burroughs (1964). 1 Today men’s nerves surround us; they have gone outside as electrical environment. The human nervous system itself can be reprogrammed biologically as readily as any radio network can alter its fare. Burroughs has dedicated Naked Lunch. To the first proposition, and Nova Express. Both Grove Press) to the second. Naked Lunch. Records private strategies of culture in the electric age. Nova Express. 6 Burroughs disdains the hallucinatory drugs as...
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Fuck You Press Archive | RealityStudio
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A William S. Burroughs Community. Fuck You Press Archive. Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker. Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting. It was a good day when I finally got my hands on Fuck You. Vol 5/No. 7. Quite possibly the coolest, hippest magazine of the mimeo revolution ( Fuck You. Here is a visual archive of materials from the Fuck You Press. Fuck You Press Bibliography. William S. Burroughs. Maxims And Aphorisms from the Letters of D.H. Lawrence. A Valorium Edition of the Entire Extan...
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Burroughs in John Ka’s Bloom | RealityStudio
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A William S. Burroughs Community. Burroughs in John Ka’s Bloom. Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker. Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting. I am currently obsessed with those poor saps seemingly most touched by OCD: 78 collectors. See the work of R. Crumb, Daniel Clowes, or Terry Zwigoff for some of the more well-known specimens. I just read Amanda Petrusich’s Do Not Sell At Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World’s Rarest 78 rpm Records. I just picked up Werner MuensterbergerR...
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David Meltzer and Nomad | RealityStudio
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A William S. Burroughs Community. David Meltzer and Nomad. Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker. Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting. For more on Jed’s mini-archive of Meltzer letters, see David Meltzer Archive: A Partial Index. In terms of reading pleasure. As Oliver Harris has shown in books and articles, letter writing was essential to Burroughs’ creative process. Let’s keep our collective fingers crossed for the second volume of letters. And Cities of the Red Night. Given their scarcit...
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William S Burroughs: A Man Within | RealityStudio
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A William S. Burroughs Community. William S Burroughs: A Man Within. Documentary Directed by Yony Leyser, 2010. Review by Graham Rae. 8220;He was the first person who was famous for things you were supposed to hide — he was gay, he was a junkie, he didn’t look handsome, he shot his wife, he wrote poetry about assholes and heroin. He was not easy to like.” — John Waters, the Pope of Trash, on WSB, the Pope of Dope. When the new-clear-eyed-art nuclear bomb that was Naked Lunch. That production presented a ...
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The Slot Machine | RealityStudio
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A William S. Burroughs Community. The Slot Machine, photograph by Charles Rotmil. I found this slot machine, a one armed bandit made in Chicago in the late fifties, 1959? I wish I knew then he spoke French. That would have been an opening. You see too many movies.” I did call my friend and told her I was delayed and would not come over for dinner. I did not get home till past midnight. The New York Post wrote up a story about my trial called “Photog Takes Wrong Picture.”. May 9, 2013 at 3:25 pm.
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A William S. Burroughs Community. E-Mail 'RealityStudio' To A Friend. Email a copy of 'RealityStudio'. Separate multiple entries with a comma. Maximum 5 entries. Separate multiple entries with a comma. Maximum 5 entries. On #1: A Descriptive Catalogue of the William S. Burroughs Archive. On William S. Burroughs, Jacques Stern, and The Fluke. On Floating Bear Archive.
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William Burroughs, My Own Mag, and Tangier | RealityStudio
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A William S. Burroughs Community. William Burroughs, My Own Mag, and Tangier. Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker. Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting. Over the years, the history of William Burroughs’ rendezvous with Tangier has taken on elements of the folk tale. Like the 1001 Arabian Nights. Emanated an aura of lived experience and authenticity. Bobby Dylan brought a copy back home and proudly displayed it on his mantelpiece as evidence that he had taken the road to excess (althoug...
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The Living Theatre | RealityStudio
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A William S. Burroughs Community. 8212; from Allen Hughes, “DANCE; A Place And Time To Find New Ways To Move,” New York Times (June 3, 2001). Fifty times. They let me hang out and take pictures. And I did. I even went back once during the day and took some formal photos of Judith Malina and Julian Beck. The play that night was Luigi Pirandello’s Tonight We Improvise. In which, very much like Six Characters in Search of an Author. Performed at the Living Theatre in the 1960s. Written by Charles Rotmil and...
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Birth | RealityStudio
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A William S. Burroughs Community. Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker. Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting. Last month, Alex Wermer-Colan. Rummaging through the shelves lining the Bunker, Alex suggested I scan Birth. Center on a single theme — Bohemia, children’s literature, and drugs, respectively — and each provides a collage of primary materials relating to that topic. The mosaic approach is very Burroughsian and Burroughs is naturally featured in the drug issue (quotes...Holds great i...
