Friday’s Weekly Round-Up – 742

Well, it’s that time of the year again and we can’t resist running again Philip Heying‘s iconic photo

and it’s also (coincidentally) John Keats‘ birthday

and tomorrow Day of the Dead

and pub date for Beatdom‘s latest William Burroughs title – The Bunker Diaries – “Stewart Meyer‘s account of life in and around William S. Burroughs’ Bowery Bunker in the late 1970s and early 1980s.”

“(Meyer) recounts a period of his life …when he hung out at Burroughs’ Bunker in NYC, learning to write at the side of one of the 20th century’s greats.
(He) passes along Burroughs’ advice on writing and on life. He also details the amusing interactions Burroughs had with the likes of Allen Ginsberg and (with) Jacques Stern.
We also see up close the antics of Herbert Huncke and Gregory Corso.
The Bunker Diaries spills out of the Bunker and onto the streets of NYC, where Meyer is copping for heroin and opium, slinging bags of weed, and all the while trying to run his own typesetting business in a rapidly changing industry. It is a fast-paced dive into a lost world, filled with wit and wisdom.”

Artifacts from the times – Artlyst reports on The Long Sixties (1955–1975), the collection, assembled by the late Hilary Gerrard, soon to be on view at Shapero Rare Books in Bond Street, London (from the 10th to the 21st of next month). It  “reads like a living archive of counterculture“. It’s “a collection that doesn’t just catalogue that change, it relives it.”

Burroughs items are included here, including, “‘two items (that) are particularly significant”,
Time (1965), one of just ten copies published by “C” Press and signed by Burroughs and Brion Gysin, complete with a manuscript page, and Health Bulletin: APO-33, Ed Sanders’ 1965 publication for Fuck You Press… The collection also includes Brion Gysin’s unpublished manuscript notebook from his Beat Hotel years – a raw record of his experiments with calligraphy, sound poetry, and the Dream Machine.” “Unseen until now, it’s a discovery”, (Artlyst, somewhat portentously, declares), “that will likely rewrite elements of Beat history.”