The Road to Interzone: Reading William S. Burroughs Reading by Michael Stevens “The Road to Interzone is a partially annotated bibliography of the reading of William S. Burroughs. (…) In 2000, I set out to catalogue every published literary reference Burroughs made throughout his career. The document you hold in your hands is the result. It stands as a testament of an obsession and more importantly, the raw material for an investigation into what John Livingston Lowes called: ‘the shaping spirit of the imagination,’ the source materials of what was to become Burroughs’ literary legacy and the skeleton for an interpretation of the operational processes of influence and the function of artistic inspiration. (…) The Road to Interzone seeks to identify the literary influences that made WSB’s legendary canon of work possible.” “A fascinating and richly helpful piece of literary archeology, tracing as broadly as possible the sources William Burroughs had available to him as he wrote. Both the title and the method echo the classic Road to Xanadu, John Livingston Lowes excavation of Coleridge’s reading: Coleridge, like Burroughs, being more than a little interested in drugs. It is a work for which all Burroughs students should be grateful.” —Larry McMurtry Release date: September 1, 2009 Second Edition : Sold out. ***All New Updated Third Edition Available September 2013*** © 2012 by Michael Stevens http://www.suicidepress.com/interzone.html
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The Road to Interzone: Reading William S. Burroughs Reading

by Michael Stevens

“The Road to Interzone is a partially annotated bibliography of the reading of William S. Burroughs. (…) In 2000, I set out to catalogue every published literary reference Burroughs made throughout his career. The document you hold in your hands is the result. It stands as a testament of an obsession and more importantly, the raw material for an investigation into what John Livingston Lowes called: ‘the shaping spirit of the imagination,’ the source materials of what was to become Burroughs’ literary legacy and the skeleton for an interpretation of the operational processes of influence and the function of artistic inspiration. (…) The Road to Interzone seeks to identify the literary influences that made WSB’s legendary canon of work possible.”

“A fascinating and richly helpful piece of literary archeology, tracing as broadly as possible the sources William Burroughs had available to him as he wrote. Both the title and the method echo the classic Road to Xanadu, John Livingston Lowes excavation of Coleridge’s reading: Coleridge, like Burroughs, being more than a little interested in drugs. It is a work for which all Burroughs students should be grateful.” —Larry McMurtry
Release date: September 1, 2009

Second Edition : Sold out.

***All New Updated Third Edition Available September 2013***

© 2012 by Michael Stevens

http://www.suicidepress.com/interzone.html

indefenseofart:

Just when I thought I couldn’t fall in love with Basquiat any further: Jean-Michel Basquiat’s illustration for Maya Angelou’s children’s book, Life doesn’t Frighten Me (1993), aka an artnerd’s dream collaboration. I’m absolutely turning Basquiat’s T-rex into a tattoo.

(via howtobeterrell)

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visual-poetry:

»anachronism« typewriter poems by anatol knotek

unique, handmade chapbook, 16 poems, DIN A6, with sewn bindings;

»usually a book is just a copy - but not this one. every poem is individually written with my typewriter, so each single page is unique. out of about 50 poems i chose 16 for each book, therefore also the contents varies and is never the same.«

if you like to purchase the book, you can use the paypal button on the left side of my blog, or just contact me on tumblr or via email: anatol(at)anatol(dot)cc

A reader snapped a photograph of the sign at the The Albion Beatnik bookstore in Oxford. After ten hours, the sign has been viewed nearly 9,000 times online as digital readers share their love of bookstores. Here’s more about the Albion Beatnik at For Book’s Sake (be sure to read the entire review): http://forbookssake.net/2010/12/01/the-albion-beatnik-in-oxford/ Opening some time around midday and usually closing after midnight, this is a place where you can sit in dilapidated red buttonback sofas and choose the poet mug you want to drink your (very strong, very good) coffee out of (I’m always Sylvia Plath. Fortunately there are two Plath mugs so I rarely have to resort to actually wrestling the other clientele or settling for Seamus Heaney) … It’s a place where zinesters meet to pillage material for handmades, politics students tap out theses whilst stopping to explain Bukowski or canvas customers on a point of Marxist theory, and poetry groups (the Backroom Poets, Oxford Improvisers, Oxford University Poetry Society and many both more and less official) meet to plot whatever it is poetry groups meet and plot about. Posted by Jason Boog on May 10, 2013. Via Galleycat http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/this-is-a-bookshop-sign-goes-viral_b70228
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A reader snapped a photograph of the sign at the The Albion Beatnik bookstore in Oxford.

After ten hours, the sign has been viewed nearly 9,000 times online as digital readers share their love of bookstores. Here’s more about the Albion Beatnik at For Book’s Sake (be sure to read the entire review):

http://forbookssake.net/2010/12/01/the-albion-beatnik-in-oxford/

Opening some time around midday and usually closing after midnight, this is a place where you can sit in dilapidated red buttonback sofas and choose the poet mug you want to drink your (very strong, very good) coffee out of (I’m always Sylvia Plath. Fortunately there are two Plath mugs so I rarely have to resort to actually wrestling the other clientele or settling for Seamus Heaney) … It’s a place where zinesters meet to pillage material for handmades, politics students tap out theses whilst stopping to explain Bukowski or canvas customers on a point of Marxist theory, and poetry groups (the Backroom Poets, Oxford Improvisers, Oxford University Poetry Society and many both more and less official) meet to plot whatever it is poetry groups meet and plot about.

Posted by Jason Boog on May 10, 2013.

Via Galleycat

http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/this-is-a-bookshop-sign-goes-viral_b70228

visual-poetry: »then« by anatol knotek from my »anachronism« chapbook »usually a book is just a copy - but not this one. every poem is individually written with my typewriter, so each single page is unique. out of about 50 poems i chose 16 for each book, therefore also the contents varies and is never the same.« if you like to purchase the book, you can use the paypal button on the left side of my blog, or just contact me on tumblr or via email: anatol(at)anatol(dot)cc
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visual-poetry:

»then« by anatol knotek

from my »anachronism« chapbook

»usually a book is just a copy - but not this one. every poem is individually written with my typewriter, so each single page is unique. out of about 50 poems i chose 16 for each book, therefore also the contents varies and is never the same.«

if you like to purchase the book, you can use the paypal button on the left side of my blog, or just contact me on tumblr or via email: anatol(at)anatol(dot)cc