The Burroughs-Warhol Connection

<p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 0.5); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The Burroughs-Warhol Connection</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 0.5); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> revolves around four meetings between William S. Burroughs and Andy Warhol in 1980. Its author Victor Bockris was a friend and collaborator of both men and attempted to bring them together for a series of interviews. The results were comical absurd and brilliant. The two never quite seemed capable of connecting yet somehow a bond was formed and they came to like and respect one another.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 0.5); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Bockris has collected the interviews he recorded-which are punctuated by visits from Mick Jagger Lou Reed David Bowie Debbie Harry and other luminaries-mixed them with excerpts from his journals and gathered one hundred photographs and collages. There are also reflective essays from Bockris and Jed Birmingham. The book is a collage a cut-up a constellation. It is a vital and beautiful document of the connection (and missed connections) between two of the most important minds of the last century. It also features a long brilliant interview with Bockris conducted by Leon Horton (a frequent contributor to </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 0.5); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Beatdom</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 0.5); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> and editor of the recently published</span> <em>Ten Times a Poet</em>).</p>