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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:

Public Library Buys a Trove of Burroughs Papers / Wyatt, Edward; Burroughs WS; Altmann R; Jackson R; Jackson D., 2006

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Identifier: CC-44575-46731
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Robert and Donna Jackson who sold these Burroughs papers is a friend of the Sackners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five stories by Wanda M. Corn and Tirza True Latimer / Stein, Gertrude ; Apollinaire G ; Ashbery J ; Burroughs WS ; Cage J ; Cahun C ; Chicagi J ; Collins J ; Duchamp M ; Ford FM ; Goncharova N ; Gysin B ; Hugnet G ; Jarry A ; Johns J ; Joyce J ; Kerouac J ; Ligon G ; Ray M ; Paik NJ ; Picabia F ; Picasso P ; Rauschenberg R ; Ruscha E ; Satie E ; Shattuck R ; Tawney L ; Williams E., 2011

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Identifier: CC-53106-74253
Scope and Contents Gertrude Stein was one of America's most influencial writers and thinkers of the twentieth century and is considered by many to be a creator of modernism. This groundbreaking publication and accompanying exhibition present for the first time an in-depth portrait of Stein that knits together her many identities - literary celebrity, lifelong partner of Alice B. Toklas, arts networker whose famous friendships included some of the most prominent artists and writers of her time, Jewish American expatriate, and muse to artists of several generations. This project, 'Seeing Gerturde Stein: Five Stories,' details Stein's life and work as an artist and collector and places them in the larger context of her visual world for the first time. We are also introduced to Stein as a distinctive style-maker and as an expatriate American writer whose life intersected with that of internationally recognized artists and visual culture, from 1903, when she first arrived in Paris, until 1946, when she...
Dates: 2011

The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso in Paris, 1957-1963 / Miles, Barry ; Ginsberg A ; Burroughs WS ; Corso G ; Orlovsky P ; Kerouac J ; Gysin B ; Chopin H ; Heidsieck B ; Lebel JJ ; Norse H., 2000

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Identifier: CC-35585-37329
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The Beat Hotel on 9 rue Git-le-Coeur in Paris, was the residence of the Beat writers during the years 1957 to 1963. It was here that Ginsberg wrote Kaddish, Gysin discovered the cut-up method and Dream Machine, Burroughs completed and published Naked Lunch, and Corso wrote the Bomb. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

The Beats: A Graphic History / Pekar, Harvey ; Piskor, Ed ; Kerouac J ; Ginsberg A ; Burroughs WS ; McClure M ; Whalen P ; Rexroth K ; Snyder G ; Duncan R ; Ferlinghetti L ; Corso G ; Jones L ; Olson C ; Creeley R ; Patchen K ; Lamantia P ; DiPrima D ; levy da ; Kupferberg T ; Gysin B., 2009

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Identifier: CC-50230-71296
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What began among a small circle of friends in New York and San Francisco during the late 1940's and early 1950's laid the groundwork for a literary explosion, and this striking anthology captures the storied era in all its incarnations - from the Benzedrine-fueled antics of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs to the painting sessions of Jay deFeo's disheveled studio, from the jazz hipsters to the beatnik chicks, from Chicago's College of Complexes to San Francisco's famed City Lights bookstore. Snapshots of lesser-known poets and writers sit alongside frank and compelling looks at the Beats' most recognizable faces. What emerges is a brilliant collage of - and tribute to - a generation, in a form and style that is as original as its subject. The text is by Harvey Pekar and others and the art is by Ed Piskor. Paul Buhle edited the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / Burroughs, William S.., 1984

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Identifier: CC-22380-22803
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Speech delivered 1980 at the occasion of the Institute of Ecotechnics' "1980 Planet Earth Conference" in Aix-en-Provence. Book was illustrated by Christof Kohlhofer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

The Supreme Indecision of the Writer: The 1994 Lectures in Turkey / Federman, Raymond ; Abish W ; Gins M ; Gass W ; Sukenick R ; Burroughs WS ; Beckett S., 1995

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Identifier: CC-27877-29016
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The titles of these lectures include "The last Stand of Literature," The Real Begins When the Spectacle Ends," "Federman on Federman: Lie Or Die," and "the Supreme Indecision of Postmodernism." The clarity of the essays and the analysis of how Federman sees himself in relation to the political and cultural world reinforces his importance and influence in 20th century literature and thought. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Time - Place - Word / Burroughs, William S. ; Jackson Ro ; Gysin B ; Ginsberg A., 2000

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Identifier: CC-43526-45599
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Robert H. Jackson contributed an essay "William S. Burroughs: A Man with Qualities" and loaned much of the manuscripts to this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Tom Taylor & Jim Leftwich / Taylor, Thomas Lowe ; Leftwich, Jim ; Burroughs WS ; Gaze T ; Silliman R ; Lehmus J ; Hibbard T ; Eco U., 2003

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Identifier: CC-62533-47687
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The asemic writing on the photocopied colored pages by Leftwich makes each book unique -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Treatment and Transformation: Tom Phillips's "A Humument" / Elsas, Elizabeth ; Burroughs WS ; Eaton T ; Kostelanetz R ; Lyons J ; Paschal H ; Phillpot C ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK., 1992

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Identifier: CC-13445-13747
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Elsas visited the Sackner Archive to study the Phillips works in the collection and several of the reproductions in this student thesis are taken from works in the Archive. The thesis is an exceptionally mature, perceptive critical accounting of Phillips' "A Humument." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

William Burroughs: The Algebra of Need / Mottram, Eric ; Burroughs WS ; Gysin B ; Corso G ; Bowles P ; Tzara T ; Rimbaud A., 1971

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Identifier: CC-05757-5865
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Edited by Allen De Loach. Photograph of Eric Mottram by Jennifer Cobbing. This book is one of the 1125 of a total print run of 3500 bound in cloth. Mottram minutely examines Burroughs' life and major works, stating in Chapter 1 that Burroughs is "...a radical satirist whose indignation and disgust reach through the crust of the power games of the world into the aggressive areas of the obscene....expos[ing] the -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971