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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 31 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

[thanks ica] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Bann S; Finlay IH; Finlay S; Sharkey W ; Burroughs WS; Trocchi A; Nuttall J; Picard T., 1966

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Identifier: CC-56717-10000101
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This typed message continues "mrs sharkeys book is EXCELLENT" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

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 Birth of the Beat Generation: Visionaries, Rebels, and Hipsters, 1944-1960 / Watson, Steven ; Burroughs WS ; Ginsberg A ; Kerouac J ; Gysin B ; Ferlinghetti L ; Corso G ; Kaufman B., 1995

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Identifier: CC-00668-684
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Designated as one of a series of books in Circles of the Twentieth Century. Well researched history of the Beat poets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

The Burroughs File , 1984

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Identifier: CC-30497-31925
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This is the first edition. It includes reproductions of "Pages from Cut-Up Scrapbooks" in which Burroughs' pasted remnants from "Moroccan streets, weird news items, St. Louis memorabilia, ruminations on sex and death, old photographs, notes from narcs, and other essential exotica - an incredible montage of telescoped existence on the main line, source material and matrix of his books." There are also sections of Burroughs' The White Subway, The Old Movies, The Cobble Stone Gardens, and The Retreat Diaries, -- 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

William S. Burroughs, avant-garde author / Burroughs, William S.., 1997

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Identifier: CC-28240-29409
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This obituary of Burroughs was written by Tony Perry for the August 4, 1997 edition of the newspaper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

William S. Burroughs, the Beat Writer Who Distilled His Raw Nightmare Life, Dies at 83 / Burroughs, William S.., 1997

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Identifier: CC-28239-29408
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This obituary of Burroughs was written by Richard Severo for the August 4, 1997 edition of the newspaper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997