New Burroughs Book on Sale
Victor Bockris looks at the connections between William Burroughs and Andy Warhol.
We’ve been talking about this book for a long, long time… and it’s finally here!
Beatdom Books is proud to announce the release of The Burroughs-Warhol Connection by Victor Bockris, a beautiful and complex study of these two fascinating men.
Bockris was a friend and collaborator of both Burroughs and Warhol and he tried on several occasions to bring them together. These meetings are recorded in this book in interview fragments, photos, essays, and journal entries.
Like these artists’ work, this book is hard to define. It has elements of the collage. It includes art and memoir, essay and interview. It expands Bockris’ idea of “the biography of comparison,” which is based on the premise that a biography is better when it examines two or more subjects at the same time. Towards the back of the book, Beatdom regular Leon Horton interviews Bockris at length about his life and his time with Burroughs and Warhol.
You can learn more about it here. The Allen Ginsberg estate also published a nice overview of Bockris’ work and his various publications about Burroughs and Warhol. Jonah Raskin reviewed it for Rock and the Beat Generation here.
The book is on sale through all good retailers, including Amazon. Copies should be at Water Row Books by now. Due to the visual complexity of this book, we have not put it on Kindle as we normally do with our books, but we have made it available as a PDF on Gumroad. Please be aware that it’s quite a large book and also a large file, so it’s best viewed on a large screen and your device should have plenty of free space.
If you pre-ordered a copy, it should have arrived by now, so please reach out if you have not yet received yours. Likewise, if you have any issues ordering, please get in touch and we’ll try to figure it out.
We offer discounts for libraries, schools, and other institutions. We also have a few more review copies we can send out, so let us know if you wish to review the book for a publication.
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