from a 196i conversation (published in the Journal For Protection of All Beings):
AG: What is death?
WSB: A gimmick. It’s the time-birth-death gimmick. Can’t go on much longer, too many people are wising up.
More on Burroughs’ passing – here and here
Featuring today in his honor, some revealing and delightful documentary footage of him interacting with his old friend (and likewise iconoclast), Francis Bacon
and
more Burroughs – Burroughs in New Orleans – and Burroughs-in-London (from Richard Goodman) Here‘s a charming first-hand account of visiting him there
and here, in case you’ve missed it before – our Ginsberg and Burroughs photo-portfolio
Material Wealth – the extraordinary Material Wealth -Mining The Personal Archive of Allen Ginsberg. Pat Thomas, co-compiler (along with our own Peter Hale) of that stunning, revelatory compendium, will be speaking this Sunday, 7pm, at San Francisco’s Beat Museum.
For more on that event, see – here
Jim Burns reviews Leon Horton & Michelle MacDannold’s Gregory Corso – Ten Times A Poet – here
Robert Podgurski reviews Harry Smith, the occult Harry Smith – see here
Alice Notley remembers Ted Berrigan (another, yet another, wonderful chapbook from
Kevin Ring’s Beat Scene). For copies (it’s a limited edition, so move fast) contact Kevin at kevbeatscene@gmail.com
Back in May we drew your attention to Beats Unpacked, a four-part series produced by Poetry LA and hosted by Richard Modiano. The fourth and final episode of this first-rate series has finally appeared. See here
& today is, officially, the day – the James Baldwin Centennial. For our posting on this remarkable author and civil rights activist – see here