American writer and editor James Grauerholz is best known as the bibliographer and literary executor of the late William S. Burroughs. Grauerholz was born in Coffeyville, Kansas in 1953 and briefly attented the University of Kansas before dropping out in the early 1970s. Already fascinated by the Beat Generation when he left Kansas for New York City, Grauerholz befriended Allen Ginsberg, who recommended him as an assistant to Burroughs. Over the years Grauerholz developed into…
Named after Ezra Pound’s 1938 Guide to Kulchur, Kulchur was a 1960s quarterly magazine from New York that focused on cultural criticism by leading avant-garde poets, writers and artists of the period. The first three issues by Kulchur were edited by Marc Schleifer in 1960, followed by single issues edited by Gilbert Sorrentino and Joel Oppenheimer, a number…
Named after Ezra Pound’s 1938 Guide to Kulchur, Kulchur was a 1960s quarterly magazine from New York that focused on cultural criticism by leading avant-garde poets, writers and artists of the period. The first three issues by Kulchur were edited by Marc Schleifer in 1960, followed by single issues edited by Gilbert Sorrentino and Joel Oppenheimer, a number of issues by editorial boards with Frank O’Hara and LeRoi Jones a.o. before being continued under the single editorship of Lita Hornick from 1962 to 1965. Kulchur ran for twenty issues before Hornick turned the…
Named after Ezra Pound’s 1938 Guide to Kulchur, Kulchur was a 1960s quarterly magazine from New York that focused on cultural criticism by leading avant-garde poets, writers and artists of the period. The first three issues by Kulchur were edited by Marc Schleifer in 1960, followed by single issues edited by Gilbert Sorrentino and Joel Oppenheimer, a number of issues by editorial boards with Frank O’Hara and LeRoi Jones a.o. before being continued under the single editorship of Lita Hornick from 1962 to 1965. Kulchur ran for twenty issues before Hornick turned the…