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Udo Breger – Extraterritorial (Zeiten mit Carl Laszlo)

Carl Laszlo, Auschwitz survivor, art collector and art dealer with Hungarian roots, and German author and translator Udo Breger, born during World War II with close ties to key figures of the Beat Generation, meet in Basel in the late 1970s and early 1980s. One hopes to establish personal contact with William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and Allen Ginsberg, while the other turns out to be a mediator who, against the backdrop of…
€ 17.50

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Oliver Harris/Farid Ghadami – Two Assassins: Hassan Sabbah/William Burroughs

“Two Assassins is a unique collaborative work, part detective story, part literary scholarship, part historical research, and part personal memoir that seeks to unravel a mystery: what the 11th-century Persian master of the Assassins, Hassan Sabbah, really meant for William Burroughs. Oliver Harris sheds light on the many untold backstories and dark textual secrets behind Burroughs’ invocations of Hassan Sabbah…
€ 24.00

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Catherine Marshall & Simon Johnson – Ordinary Stupid People

“… Joan Vollmer’s memory has long been framed within the narrative of the troubled five-year common-law marriage to the writer William S. Burroughs… her accidental death at her husband’s hand is unforgettable, the most enduring event of her short life. The shooting made her life a taboo topic for those who knew her well and a subject of fascination for those who did not. But the shooting tells us nothing about the 28 years of Joan’s life that preceded it… Joan Vollmer was extraordinary. The dean of her college knew it. Burroughs knew it. We knew it, too…”
€ 15.00

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Heinrich Nowak – Die Sonnenseuche

Heinrich Nowak was born in Vienna in 1890. On and off he followed German Studies in that town from 1911 to 1918 and took actively part in the organisation of cultural events, such as re-staging a futurist exhibition from Berlin in 1912. During that period in Vienna, Nowak befriended young expressionists such as Albert Ehrenstein and Egon Schiele and soon emerged as one of Austria’s leading literary expressionists. Until 1918 Nowak’s poems appeared regularly in German and Austrian expressionist magazines…
€ 15.00

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Richard Byrne – Hotel Mayflower

True story: Before finding fame as a writer, Beat Generation icon William Burroughs met a German Jewish woman named Ilse Herzfeld Klapper in Dubrovnik. A year later, in 1938, they married. Ilse Burroughs received a U.S. visa from this marriage, which allowed her to escape Nazi Germany. She arrived in New York in 1939, where she worked for exiled anti-fascist German writer Ernst Toller. During his exile, Toller had become a leading figure in the anti-fascist resistance. He gave speeches, wrote articles, raised money for the hungry in Spain and even wrote film scripts…
€ 20.00

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