BIB_ID
455808
Accession number
MA 23933.2
Creator
Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997, author.
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Purchased on the Drue Heinz Fund for Twentieth-Century Literature, 2025.
Description
1 item (6 pages) ; 25.4 x 20.4 cm
Notes
Probable date based on possibly accompanying material.
Typescript on white paper paginated by hand with minor corrections in ink.
Part of a small collection of literary documents acquired together, cataloged separately chronicling a feud between William S. Burroughs and Lawrence Lipton waged in the pages of The Los Angeles Free Press, ("The Freep"). Lipton wrote a negative review of Brion Gysin's novel "The Process" focusing on the use of "cut ups" published in The Freep #295, March 1970 and Burroughs responded with a critique of the review; see related collection record (MA 23933) for more information.
Typescript on white paper paginated by hand with minor corrections in ink.
Part of a small collection of literary documents acquired together, cataloged separately chronicling a feud between William S. Burroughs and Lawrence Lipton waged in the pages of The Los Angeles Free Press, ("The Freep"). Lipton wrote a negative review of Brion Gysin's novel "The Process" focusing on the use of "cut ups" published in The Freep #295, March 1970 and Burroughs responded with a critique of the review; see related collection record (MA 23933) for more information.
Summary
Quoting from and critiquing Lawrence Lipton's negative review of Brion Gysin's novel "The Process" line by line; correcting Lipton's claims about the cut up method; describing which of his works used cut ups; advocating for its use; asking "Just what is so coterie, arcane, mystagogic, closed circuit, secret, snobbish, Kenyon Review about all of this Mr. Lipton?"
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