{"id":71770,"date":"2026-01-04T21:18:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T02:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=71770"},"modified":"2026-01-05T11:07:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T16:07:28","slug":"quoting-william-s-burroughs-a-book-designers-take-on-current-political-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2026\/01\/quoting-william-s-burroughs-a-book-designers-take-on-current-political-conditions.html","title":{"rendered":"<font size=\"+1\"><em>Quoting William S. Burroughs<\/em><\/font> <br>A Book Designer&#8217;s Take on Political Conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.molokoplusrecords.de\/finder.php?folder=Print&amp;content=345\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"1001\" data-attachment-id=\"71757\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/hoodlums-2-750\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/HOODLUMS-2-750.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"750,1001\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;MF650C Series&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"The Purple-Assed Baboon\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/HOODLUMS-2-750.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/HOODLUMS-2-750.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71757\" title=\"CLICK FOR THE FRONT COVER AS LISTED BY THE PUBLISHER\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/HOODLUMS-2-750.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/HOODLUMS-2-750-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>&#8216;purple-assed baboon&#8217;:<\/strong> subtly illustrated back cover of Moloko Print&#8217;s new edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.molokoplusrecords.de\/finder.php?folder=Print&amp;content=345\"><strong>Roosevelt After the Inauguration: <em>Redux<\/em><\/strong><\/a> <strong> by William S. Burroughs<\/strong>, edited and with an introduction by Oliver Harris. <br><em>Cover design by Elia Inderle<\/em>.<em>Book design by Robert Schalinski.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Have a look.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":71757,"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":[19,26,18,4,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-71770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-books","9":"category-literature","10":"category-main","11":"category-news","12":"category-political-culture","13":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/HOODLUMS-2-750.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-iFA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71770","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=71770"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71815,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71770\/revisions\/71815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}