Literature

Collage by William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin, c. 1965 (via Print) What’s that, friend? You say you’d like to consult the I Ching, but…

“The fiction is already there. The writer’s task is to invent the reality.” –J.G. Ballard The three bedroom semi detached property that British novelist, short…

Photo: Baron Wolman The following is an edited version of an article I wrote on Dangerous Minds back in 2012 when Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life…

‘The Delightful Mount.’ We are in Hell. That’s how it begins. We are in Hell and have to find our way out. That’s the “tagline”…

Jonathan Miller became famous in the cast of the great 1960s comedy show Beyond the Fringe, sharing the stage with Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, and—I…

Prostitute, rue Asselin. Eugène Atget first tried his hand as sailor, actor and painter before discovering his true vocation as a documentary photographer on the…

The Beach Boys Love You, from 1977, is not everyone’s favorite Beach Boys LP, but it is Bucks Burnett’s. The onetime manager of Tiny Tim…

Burroughs contemplating an orgone box As a contributor to this blog, I spend a lot of my time poking around looking for suitable subjects that…

I could feel it before I got there. Several miles out and the dark vibes curled through the air like a toxic vapor. Serpentine streams…

I was in a record store the other day when I noticed an LP I’d never seen before–a sealed copy of a 1977 album called…