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Archives for December 2015

A Cool Way to End the Year

December 30, 2015 by Jan Herman

Carl Weissner's 'The Braille Film' at the Strand's Rare Books Room. This cut-up 'novel' was published in San Francisco, in 1970, by Nova Broadcast Press.

The countdown continues at the Bibliographic Bunker, where Jed Birmingham’s top 23 most interesting Burroughs collectibles has reached Carl Weissner’s Klacto 23 International, the seventh of the Klacto zines, which Birmingham terms “one of the great mimeo mags of the post-WWII era.” Coincidentally, a friend stopped by the rare books room at the Strand and […]

In RAIN TAXI: Paul Buhle on ‘The Z Collection’

December 14, 2015 by Jan Herman

“Once, a mere blink in the eye of eternity but actually several generations ago, literary essays were considered a high art form. Not the kind written in pursuit of academic self-advancement …” Click to enlarge. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

Brion Gysin: ‘Poets Don’t Own No Words’

December 13, 2015 by Jan Herman

Brion Gysin's Permutation: 'POETS DON'T OWN NO WORDS'

Ian Sommerville programmed software to generate [Gysin’s] computer poems, which was reenacted by Joseph Moore as the “Permutation” software for the exhibition Brion Gysin: Dream Machine (2010) at the New Museum in New York. Postscript: Dec. 14 — Per William Osborne’s comment, here is Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ song “Can’t Hold Us” as performed by […]

Did I Hear Someone Say ‘No Smoking, Please?’

December 11, 2015 by Jan Herman

Jurgen Ploog

And now for something different. … “Jürgen Ploog: Tapes on the Move” … EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

Gonzo Style

December 9, 2015 by Jan Herman

GONZO Improv Ad

Gonzo Today brings us a gonzo poem by Heathcote Williams that begins: The Parisian atrocities were born in Libya / Where Cameron, Sarkozy, and Obama / Murdered twelve thousand Libyans between sips / Of Downing Street and Oval Office coffee. Read the complete poem here. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

Rent a Rammer for Homeland Security

December 7, 2015 by Jan Herman

SICUREZZA PATRIA, a postcard by Norman O. Mustill (ca. 1980s)

Norman O. Mustill died two years ago today. Here are two postcard he sent his friend Kurt Wold back in the 1980s. Although only postcards, they are like all Norm’s work, as Wold says: “the manifestation of the man.” And they haven’t aged a nanosecond. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

Say Hello to ‘A Better Goodbye’

December 2, 2015 by Jan Herman

'A Better Goodbye' by John Schulian [Tyrus Books, 2015]

An interviewer recently asked me about influences. I told her about a number of journalists in Chicago back in the day. Among them was John Schulian, a sportswriter whose 1,000-word columns four times a week were graceful tapestries. He wove sentences together like threads of embroidery that gave everything he observed a texture you could […]

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