Our old amigo has written a stunning new book, Death in Paris, which realitystudio.org has just posted online. It’s wild. The epigraph (from Raymond Chandler) sets the tone: “There must be idealism, but there must also be contempt.” Weissner begins with an “Establishing Shot” … He woke at 3 AM. Dim yellow light filled the […]
Archives for July 2009
A Burroughs Milestone
Jed Birmingham discusses the importance of little magazines to William Burroughs and their role in the publication and reception of Naked Lunch. The video was recorded in Paris on July 3, 2009, at the Naked Lunch@50 conference sponsored by the University of London Institute. The conference marked the original publication of Burroughs’s book by the […]