BIB_ID
455809
Accession number
MA 23933.3
Creator
Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997, author.
Credit line
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 and date struck out in the upper right corner.
Typescript on white paper paginated by hand with proofreader's marks in ink.
Part of a small collection of literary documents acquired together, cataloged separately detailing 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 proofreader's marks in ink.
Part of a small collection of literary documents acquired together, cataloged separately detailing 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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