Tag Archives: William S. Burroughs

Rediscovered: Barlow and Burroughs

Posted on September 11, 2021 by Don

Another Autograph Hound Weekend looms before us, this one — like many before — anchored by John Hancocks that have drifted into the mitts of Brian Leno, and will never drift out. Not in this lifetime. Take it, Brian: I’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit | Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Autographs, Brian Leno, literary suicides, Lovecraft, Robert H. Barlow, Thomas Hart Benton, William S. Burroughs |

Rediscovered: A Shadow Puzzle

Posted on July 20, 2021 by Don

Brian Leno greets me this morning with a puzzler. “A little quiz for the Mean Streets, Don: Which of these three does not belong?” The reboot or reimagining or defunding of The Shadow by James Patterson came out the other … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, News | Tagged Brian Leno, Doctor Sax, Jack Kerouac, James Patterson, The Shadow, Tom Krabacher, William S. Burroughs |

Rediscovered: “Heavy Metal” — The Term

Posted on October 15, 2018 by Don

Last week I was half-reading/half-skimming John Locke’s new book The Thing’s Incredible! The Secret Origins of Weird Tales — life is short, so any clump of pages covering the ancestral background of Otis Adelbert Kline and company I let my … Continue reading →

Posted in Frisco, Lit, News | Tagged Blue Cheer, Edwin Baird, Farnsworth Wright, Heavy Metal, James Ferdinand Morton, John Locke, Led Zeppelin, Lovecraft, OED, Otis Adelbert Kline, The Thing's Incredible!, Vincebus Eruptum, Weird Tales, William S. Burroughs |

Frisco Beat: City Lights Hits 60

Posted on June 20, 2013 by Don

It’s up against the Hammett Tour I’m doing this coming Sunday with Dashiel (and the ghost of Dashiell, I guess), but what the hell — City Lights Bookstore making it to 60 years on the mean streets is worth a … Continue reading →

Posted in Frisco, Lit, News, Tour | Tagged Allen Ginsberg, City Lights, Jack Kerouac alley, The Cacophony Society, William S. Burroughs |

Rediscovered: More Life of Floyd

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Don

Got a note from Matthew Asprey that he’s got another publishing deal gone down — the magazine Contrappasso. Haven’t seen it yet, but a star feature for Up and Down These Mean Streets types would be a new autobiographical piece … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, News | Tagged Contrappasso, Eddie Little, Edward Bunker, Floyd Salas, Jack Kerouac, James Crumley, Jim Tully, Matthew Asprey, Raymond Chandler, William S. Burroughs |

Rediscovered: You Can’t Win

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Don

Out of the legions of neglected books from all the books that have come and gone in all the world, very few return to any kind of currency. Once the book slips out of print, or the generation of readers that made it … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Frisco, Lit, SFSC | Tagged "The Red Brain", Book Collecting, City Lights, Donald Wandrei, Green Apple Books, Jack Black, John Law, Kevin Hunsanger, Kindle, Pulps, The Big Knockover, William S. Burroughs, You Can't Win |

Hammett: Playing the Sap

Posted on March 5, 2011 by Don

Take out your copy of Jo Hammett’s Dashiell Hammett: A Daughter Remembers. Turn to page 34. We’re going to be dealing with the bottom photo on that page. If you don’t have a copy of the book, this post spotlights a … Continue reading →