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Highlights
- The Burroughs-Warhol Connection revolves around four meetings between William S. Burroughs and Andy Warhol in 1980.
- Author(s): Victor Bockris
- 210 Pages
- Biography + Autobiography, Artists, Architects, Photographers
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Book Synopsis
The Burroughs-Warhol Connection revolves around four meetings between William S. Burroughs and Andy Warhol in 1980. Its author, Victor Bockris, was a friend and collaborator of both men and attempted to bring them together for a series of interviews. The results were comical, absurd, and brilliant. The two never quite seemed capable of connecting, yet somehow a bond was formed and they came to like and respect one another.
Bockris has collected the interviews he recorded-which are punctuated by visits from Mick Jagger, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Debbie Harry, and other luminaries-mixed them with excerpts from his journals, and gathered one hundred photographs and collages. There are also reflective essays from Bockris and Jed Birmingham. The book is a collage, a cut-up, a constellation. It is a vital and beautiful document of the connection (and missed connections) between two of the most important minds of the last century. It also features a long, brilliant interview with Bockris conducted by Leon Horton (a frequent contributor to Beatdom and editor of the recently published Ten Times a Poet).
Review Quotes
By living up close and intimate time after time with Burroughs, Warhol, Jagger, Ginsberg and others, Bockris was on the scene to hear and record quotable quotations that no reporter on a short leash, a tight-deadline and with a limited word-length would likely hear and record. This committed observer put in the time and it paid off.
--Jonah Raskin, author of American Scream: Allen Ginsberg's Howl and the Making of the Beat Generation