Kathy Acker Interviews William Burroughs

Kathy Acker – photograph by Allen Ginsberg c. The Allen Ginsberg Estate

Two mod (post-mod) icons. Kathy Acker interviews William S Burroughs in London in 1988, on the occasion of the opening of his inaugeral show of his shotgun paintings, at the October Gallery. He discusses both his writing and his painting (the history and process) and corrects a couple of Kathy’s apocryphal stories.

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