With William Burroughs
A Report from the Bunker
by Victor Bockris
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Pub Date Jan 26 2016 | Archive Date Apr 26 2016
Description
During the 1970s, William Burroughs, author of Junky and Naked Lunch, lived in a loft on the Bowery in New York City’s Lower East Side. Christened “The Bunker,” his apartment became a modern-day literary salon with people like Andy Warhol, Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Susan Sontag, and fellow beat poet Allen Ginsberg passing through for a drink or a joint and the promise of stimulating conversation with the ingenious and eccentric Burroughs.
Among Burroughs’s entourage was author Victor Bockris, whose tape recorder was always running to capture meandering dinner party conversations and electric late-night sessions in the Bunker. In these moments, Bockris captures Burroughs’s desires, anxieties, and thoughts on writing, photography, punk rock, and more. The recordings and recollections in With William Burroughs create an unprecedentedly multidimensional portrait of a man who is often overshadowed by his reputation.
Advance Praise
Praise for Victor Bockris
“Victor Bockris is a brilliant young writer. . . . He types like Van Cliburn plays the piano. He’s always tape recording and taking pictures. I can’t keep up with him.” —Andy Warhol
“Bockris’s real talents are his instincts. . . . . [He] casually fires off interesting questions about the politics of the time, drugs, and sex, without resorting to the usual interview clichés. . . . An entertaining, revealing, and celebratory look at the heroes of our recent past.” —The Portland Mercury on Beat Punks
“What’s revealed by the subjects themselves makes this book worth reading.” —Willamette Week (Portland, OR) on Beat Punks
“An impressive and entertaining work, one which will be very hard to beat.” —Financial Timeson Warhol: The Biography
“[A] great subject, depicted with elegance and aptness . . . A biography which can hold so true a mirror to such a many-faceted personality is invaluable.” —New Statesman on Warhol: The Biography
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781497653054 |
| PRICE | $0.00 (USD) |
