{"id":4042,"date":"2012-12-26T10:43:08","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T15:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=4042"},"modified":"2012-12-28T13:19:14","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T18:19:14","slug":"fresh-from-my-hot-little-paws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2012\/12\/fresh-from-my-hot-little-paws.html","title":{"rendered":"Fresh From My Hot Little Paws"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Observed While Falling: Bill Burroughs, Ah Pook, and Me [Fantagraphics, 2012]<\/p><\/div>A review posted at RealityStudio<\/a> of Malcolm Mc Neill’s spellbinding memoir, Observed While Falling,<\/em><\/a> recently published by Fantagraphics Books, about his relationship with William S. Burroughs and their artistic collaboration.<\/p>\n

Mc Neill is an artist who can write. Really write. He brings a fresh analytical eye to the familiar Burroughsian fixations \u2014 synchronicity and doppelgangers, control systems, the word as virus, the number 23 \u2014 that dominate the memoir, while still offering a straightforward chronicle of the author\u2019s relationship with le ma\u00eetre<\/em>.<\/p>\n

OWF<\/em> draws an indelible word portrait of Burroughs unlike anything I\u2019ve read elsewhere. He humanizes the man by showing us his unexpected generosity as well as his forbidding intelligence, and by capturing funny, intimate moments with quickly sketched tales and an ear for dialogue that will make you laugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A review posted at RealityStudio of Malcolm Mc Neill’s spellbinding memoir, Observed While Falling, recently published by Fantagraphics Books, about his relationship with William S. Burroughs and their artistic collaboration. Mc Neill is an artist who can write. Really write. He brings a fresh analytical eye to the familiar Burroughsian fixations \u2014 synchronicity and doppelgangers, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-art","7":"category-literature","8":"entry","9":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-13c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}