Tag: William S. Burroughs
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D. Harlan Wilson’s excellent book on J. G. Ballard
Book review by Bill Ectric, published on 03/01/2018 on this website. D. Harlan Wilson has made a literary mark in the field of cultural theory, focusing on the loss of humanity in the inescapable rush of accelerating technology, with books like Technologized Desire: Selfhood and the Body in Postcapitalist Science Fiction and Cultographies: They Live. While his fiction tends…
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The David Roberts Interview
No one knew what to think when we first saw a band called the “Crawfish of Love.” The stage was strewn with surreal artwork, a manikin head, several TV sets turned on to random channels or static, guitar amplifiers, drums, and five musicians that looked like they were conspiring mischief among themselves. Andy King on…
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Fortean Melancholia and Paranormal Mourning
Many thanks to Andrew Wenaus for his review of my novel, Tamper! Tamper is like the Hardy Boys in that it is a kind of mystery novel in clear/concise language, and it is like (William S.) Burroughs in the sense that there is a presiding desire to break free of some kind of invisible system…
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Philip K. Dick Again
I just finished Lawrence Sutin’s Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick (1989, Harmony Books). Enjoyed every page. Instead of reviewing the entire book, I want to share two good parts. Page 265 features a classic PKD parable mixing scientific knowledge with divine wisdom. Phil wrote this in 1979: A new ambulance is filled with…
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Fine Lines
I suppose my recent cut-up experiment is more about marketing than writing. It’s certainly easier to write a cut-up than it is to get someone to read it, but I don’t want to trick anyone into reading something that isn’t any good. Quality should always come first. One should believe they have a product of…
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Cut-up Experiment Results, with Commentary
Fresh from the research field! I’m the first to admit this experiment was not as scientifically controlled as it could have been. It was more of a warm-up exercise; nevertheless, I did learn something that I found quite interesting. First, a brief summary of the experiment: I created a piece of cut-up writing from two…
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Deciphering Burroughs
Photo of Oliver Harris by Rudy Rucker Everything Lost: the Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs, written by Oliver Harris and published by RealityStudio on 17 December 2007. You can order Everything Lost at Amazon. Mr. Harris talks about researching and writing the book on RealityStudio.org: “In November 2002, Grauerholz referred to it as ‘Mexico…
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Blues For Horselover Fat: William Gibson on Philip K. Dick
From PhilipKDickfans.com, William Gibson says, “Remarkable the number of Phil Dick’s fans who have no desire to read any other sf. It always impressed me. ‘Well, no, I don’t read that stuff…. But do you know this guy Dick?’ How did they get on to him? Word of mouth…. He was the only product of…