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William Burroughs/Oliver Harris – Roosevelt after Inauguration redux

Oliver Harris’s latest Burroughs study scrutinises the background and publication history of the obscene pamphlet Roosevelt after Inauguration that William Burroughs wrote in 1953. Harris’s meticulous research and expertise makes this book another fine edition in Moloko’s steadily growing Burroughs series. Elegantly written as usual, the book is a pleasure to read and provides the reader with an abundance of interesting details, such as Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s initial refusal to publish the pamphlet and Amiri Baraka’s arrest for having done so…
€ 20.00

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Susanna Lakner – Magazin Spettacolo

Hungarian artist Susanna Lakner (1960) was born and raised in Budapest, where she studied typography at what is now Moholy-Nagy University and completed an apprenticeship in printing and retouching. After having worked as a designer in the Hungarian printing industry for a number of years, she and her husband moved to Stuttgart, Germany. There she turned to a full-time artist’s practice with a focus on analogue collages, found object assemblages, stamps, artist’s books and mail art (the latter under the pseudonym Planet Susannia). Between 2000 and 2017 she also…
€ 10.00

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Kathelin Gray & Ramuntcho Matta – Hello Yes Hello

“This book is based on conversations with Ramuntcho Matta in Chateau Thierry and London, 2023-2024. We discuss our friendships with visual artist and raconteur, Brion Gysin, and his best friend, William S. Burroughs. Ramuntcho and I met in the 1970’s through Gysin. We reflect on the creative process, magic and science, transmission, the nature of friendship, and the experience of aging. At the time of these conversations, we are the same ages as Gysin and Burroughs were when we met them… My own encounters with characters of the movement…
€ 17.50

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Harold Norse – Autostop! (Hitching through Italy on $2 a Day)

Harold Norse was born Harold Rosen to a Lithuanian Jewish immigrant in 1916. After having graduated from Brooklyn College he became close friends with W.H. Auden (after the latter’s move to the USA in 1939) and William Carlos Williams, who helped publish Norse’s experimental and groundbreaking poems. In the early 1950s Norse got his master’s degree in literature from New York University…
€ 20.00

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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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