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Fuck You Press

“I’ll print anything”

As a corollary to his Fuck You/ A Magazine of the Arts, Ed Sanders published a variety of books and broadsides  under the Fuck You Press imprint. Sanders also employed the mimeograph machine at his Peace Eye Bookstore to print catalogs, a newsletter, and ephemera for the FUGS, the band he co-founded with Tuli Kupferberg and Ken Weaver.

The Peace Eye Bookstore was located at 383 East Tenth Street on the Lower East Side. On January 1, 1966, police raided Peace Eye Bookstore and charged Sanders with obscenity, charges he fended off with the aid of the ACLU. Notoriety generated by the case led to his appearance on the February 17, 1967 cover of Life Magazine, which proclaimed him “a leader of New York’s Other Culture.”

Books

1. POEMS FOR MARILYN, edited by Ed Sanders
First edition:
New York: Fuck You Press, September 1962
Side-stapled with printed and illustrated covers, 8.5″ x 11″, 20 pages printed recto only, mimeograph printed. Illustrated by Ed Sanders.

Contents: Joel Oppenheimer (“Dear Miss Monroe”), John Keys (“Poem for Marilyn”), Taylor Mead (“from Taylor Mead’s Diary”), Al Fowler (“Marilyn”), Ed Sanders (“For Marilyn Monroe  August 5, 1962”), John Harriman (“She was a/and Almost Saintly Woman”).

From the colophon: “This volume was hand typed & and by hand mimeographed on speed-o-print Sovereign Stencils catalogue number 851 with a model L Speed-o-print serial #416-3H
POEMS FOR MARILYN sneakily & evilly stomped out on Granitex Flame paper cat. no. 49884-A at a secret location in the lower east side USA
A FUCK YOU/ PRESS PUBLICATION.”

2. Bergé, Carol. THE VANCOUVER REPORT
First edition:
New York: Fuck You Press, February 1964
Side-stapled with printed and illustrated covers, 8.5″ x 11″, 20 pages printed recto only, mimeograph printed. Illustrated by Ed Sanders.

This is Carol Berge’s first book and is her account of the the 1963 Vancouver Poetry Seminar held at the University of British Columbia; other attendees included Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, Margaret Avison, Philip Whalen, John Keys, and others.

From the colophon: “THE VANCOUVER REPORT / A FUCK YOU/ press PUBLICATION printed, published & zapped by Ed Sanders at  secret location in the lower east side New York City, U.S.A. February 1964 year of the writhing squack
TOTAL ASSAULT ON THE CULTURE!”

 3. Burroughs, William S. ROOSEVELT AFTER INAUGURATION
First edition:
New York: Fuck You Press, January 1964
Saddle-stapled with printed and illustrated wrappers, 4.25″ x 5.5″, 24 pages, 500 copies, mimeograph printed by Ed Sanders. Illustrated by Allen Ginsberg. (M&M A9a)

According to Beatbooks catalog #89: The routine, created by Burroughs and Kells Elvins while students at Harvard and originally intended for inclusion in “The Yage Letters”, was censored by the English printers, and subsequently printed in Floating Bear No. 9 (M&M C33), resulting in its editor LeRoi Jones being jailed.

From the colophon: “a FUCK YOU/ press ejaculation printed, published, & zapped at a secret location in the lower east side, new york city
Jan 1964
TOTAL ASSAULT ON THE CULTURE!!”

4. MAXIMS AND APHORISMS FROM THE LETTERS OF D.H. LAWRENCE, compiled by Marguerite Harris
First edition:
New York: Fuck You Press, September 1964
Side-stapled with printed and illustrated covers, 8.5″ x 11″, 19 pages printed recto only, 250 numbered copies, mimeograph printed. Illustrated by Ed Sanders.

From the colophon: “MAXIMS & APHORISMS printed, designed, & zapped in an edition of 250 copies at the [heiroglyphics] press in a secret location in the lower east side, New York City, U.S.A.
Sept. 1964”

Note: includes two poems, “The Thread of Love” and “The Race”, by Marguerite Harris.

5. Pélieu, Claude. AUTOMATIC PILOT
First edition:
New York: Fuck You Press and City Lights, November 1964
Side-stapled with printed and photo-illustrated covers, 8.5″ x 11″, 41 pages printed recto only. Illustrated by Ed Sanders. Cover photo by Jacques Henri Lartigue.

From the title page: “AUTOMATIC PILOT! printed, freaked, stomped, slurped, spurted, zapped, & ejaculated at a secret love-attack zone grope center in the Lower East Side, New York, U.S.A.
Nov 1964.
The FUCK YOU/ press in close & evil association, collusion & gropery with CITY LIGHTS BOOKS”

Note: this is Pélieu’s first book, translated from French to English by Mary Beach. 

6. A VALORIUM EDITION OF THE ENTIRE EXTANT WORKS OF THALES, edited by Ed Sanders 
First edition:
New York: Fuck You Press, June 1964
Side-stapled with printed and illustrated covers, 8.5″ x 11″, 4 pages printed recto only, mimeograph printed. Introduction by Aristotle. Illustrated by Ed Sanders.

From the colophon: “a fuck you/ press publication printed, published & zapped by E. Sanders at secret location in the lower east side
new york city, u.S.a.
TOTAL ASSAULT ON THE CULTURE!”

7. BUGGER: AN ANTHOLOGY, edited by Ed Sanders
First edition:
New York: Fuck You Press, November 1964
Side-stapled with printed and illustrated covers, 8.5″ x 11″, 23 pages printed recto only, 400 copies, mimeograph printed. Illustrated by Ed Sanders.

Contents: Szabo ([untitled] “kneeling, she bends over…”), Allen Ginsberg (“This Form of Life Needs Sex” ), Ed Sanders (“Corn Hole Poem”), Ted Berrigan ([untitled] “Dear Ed…”,  “Buggery”), John Harriman (“Bugger 3”), Ron Padgett (“Buggery Poem”), Al Fowler ([untitled] “watching the ladies conjugate thru…”), John Keys (“Bugger”), Harry Fainlight (“O London”). 

From the title page: “BUGGER printed, published, freaked, groped, slurped, sucked, fucked, edited, finger-stalled, supposited, & ejaculated by Ed Sanders at a secret  Bugger scene in the lower east side, New York City, U.S.A.
November 1964
a fuck you/ FLAMING TUCHAS publication
TOTAL BUGGERY IN THE CULTURE!
Labor donated by bugger-freaks”

8. DESPAIR: POEMS TO COME DOWN BY, edited by Ed Sanders
First edition:
New York: Fuck You Press, July 1964
Side-stapled with printed and illustrated covers, 8.5″ x 11″, 36 pages printed recto only, mimeograph printed. Illustrated by Ed Sanders.

Contents: Ted Berrigan ([untitled] “Dear Ed…”, “Three Stages of Despair”), Paul Blackburn (“The Quarrel”, “On the Rocks”), John Keys (“Allen Ginsberg on English Day: A Poem to Cry by while High”), Al Fowler (“Narration for a Home Movie taken by the Poet”), Harry Fainlight (“The Despair Poem”), Ed Sanders (“Despair Poem”), Szabo (“Spring Street Poem for C”).

From the colophon: “DESPAIR an issue with which to disappear into the vanishing asshole of the void
a FUCK YOU/ press publication printed, zapped, puked, & published by Ed Sanders at a secret lovefare bunker in the lower east side new york city U.S.A.
TOTAL ASSAULT ON THE CULTURE”

9. Sanders, Ed. THE TOE QUEEN POEMS
First edition:
New York: Fuck You Press, 1964
Side-stapled with printed and illustrated covers, 8.5″ x 11″, 36 pages printed recto only, mimeograph printed. Illustrated by Ed Sanders. Foreword by Consuela. 

From the colophon: “The TOE QUEEN poems a FUCK YOU/ PRESS publication printed, published, zapped & ejaculated at a secret location in the lower east side
new york city
U.S.A.
TOTAL ASSAULT ON THE CULTURE!!”

According to BeatBooks, “Poems depicting the life and times of ‘Tillie the Toe Queen’. The favourable response to Sanders’ reading of them at Café Le Metro in the Spring of 1964 provided the impetus for him to form The Fugs a few months later, and one of their first (unrecorded) songs was titled ‘Toe Queen Love’.”

10. Auden, W.H. THE PLATONIC BLOW
First edition:
New York: Fuck You Press, November 1965
Saddle-stapled with printed wrappers, 7″ x 8.5″, 12 pages, 300 copies, offset printed. Illustrated by Ed Sanders.

From the colophon: “THE FUCK YOU/ press, a name of distinction, representing 4 years of quality production in the slurping, slarfing, gobbling, golden shower & rim queen industries.”

11. Burroughs, William S. HEALTH BULLETIN: APO-33
First edition:
New York: Fuck You Press, 1965
Side-stapled with printed and illustrated covers, 8.5? x 11?, 54 pages, 10-20 copies, mimeograph printed. (M&M A12a)

According to Sanders “maybe as many as ten or twenty” copies were distributed before he halted publication due to Burroughs’ dissatisfaction with the copy he’d received.

12. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. TO FUCK IS TO LOVE AGAIN
First edition:
New York: Fuck You Press, 1965
Side-stapled with printed and illustrated covers, 8.5” x 11”, 12 pages, mimeograph printed. Illustrated by Ed Sanders. 

The word ‘Modest’ in the poem’s title is changed to ‘Holy’ on the title page. A statement at its conclusion reads: “Read at Royal Albert Hall, London, June 11, 1965”. The back cover lists “other FUCK YOU/ press books of interest”, including Bugger, Suck, and The Fugs’ Songbook. 

According to Beat Books, Ferlinghetti opened his reading at the International Poetry Incarnation with the poem, an earlier version of which had appeared in Fuck You/ A Magazine of the Arts, No. 5, Vol. 8 (February 1965). 

13. Sanders, Ed, Ken Weaver, and Betsy Klein. THE FUGS’ SONGBOOK
First edition:
New York: Peace Eye Bookstore, 1965
Side-stapled with printed and illustrated covers, 8.5″ x 11″, 60 pages  printed recto only, mimeograph printed. Illustrated by Ed Sanders.

Later editions were published by: The Sexual Freedom League of San Francisco (second edition Oct., 1965); and, Artist’s Workshop Press in Detroit (third edition of 500 copies printed Sept. 1966.

14. Pound, Ezra. THE CANTOS CX-CXVI
First edition:
New York: Fuck You Press, 1967
Side-stapled in printed and illustrated card cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 14 pages printed recto only, 300 numbered copies, mimeograph printed. Cover art by Joe Brainard. Illustration by Ed Sanders.

15. Sanders, Ed. FUCK GOD IN THE ASS: POEMS BY ED SANDERS
First edition:
New York: Fuck You Press, 1967
Side-stapled sheets in printed and illustrated covers, 8.5″ x 11″, 19 pages, 500 copies, mimeograph printed. Dedicated to Ted Berrigan and Ken Weaver.

From the colophon: “The FUCK YOU/ press
promoting pornography through
the concept of the
street-frig”

16. Sanders, Ed. A DESCRIPTION OF THE REGAL SOCIETY OF SOOEY SEMEN
First edition:
New York: Fuck You Press, 1969

Quote of the Week

1. Fainlight, Harry. THE FUCK YOU/ QUOTE OF THE WEEK, No. 1
First edition:
New York: Fuck You Press, September 1964
Single leaf, 8.5″ x 11″, mimeograph printed. Illustrated by Ed Sanders.

2. Ashbury, John. THE FUCK YOU/ QUOTE OF THE WEEK, No. 2
First edition:
New York: Fuck You Press, September 1964
Single leaf, 8.5″ x 11″, mimeograph printed. Illustrated by Ed Sanders.

3. Koch, Kenneth. THE FUCK YOU/ QUOTE OF THE WEEK, No. 3
First edition:
New York: Fuck You Press, September 1964
Single leaf, 8.5″ x 11″, mimeograph printed. Illustrated by Ed Sanders.

little magazines

My Own Mag

MY OWN MAG, No. 6, edited by Jeff Nuttall (Barnet, July 1964)

My Own Mag was produced by Jeff Nuttall, a larger than life figure in the history of the British counterculture, who edited it while working as a secondary school art teacher. Many prominent underground, Beat and related writers of a usually modest reputation, but not always, contributed to it. These included Anselm Hollo, Alan Brownjohn, Charles Plymell, Jim Haynes, William Wantling, Douglas Blazek, Bill Butler, Carl Weissner, Claude Pélieu, Criton Tomazos, Robert Creeley, and Allen Ginsberg.

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My Own Mag

My Own Mag was produced by Jeff Nuttall, a larger than life figure in the history of the British counterculture, who edited it while working as a secondary school art teacher. Many prominent underground, Beat and related writers of a usually modest reputation, but not always, contributed to it. These included Anselm Hollo, Alan Brownjohn, Charles Plymell, Jim Haynes, William Wantling, Doug Blazek, Bill Butler, Carl Weissner, Claude Pélieu, Criton Tomazos, Robert Creeley, and Allen Ginsberg.

William S. Burroughs was the most prolific and important of these contributors, the publication is a rich treasure trove of his writings and thoughts on art, society, sexuality, deviance, literature and drugs. It is astonishing and laudable that Burroughs was publishing his most cutting edge work in a scruffy little zine that was self published and edited by a schoolteacher when he was a feted and notorious writer at the height of his fame after publishing Naked Lunch in 1959. My Own Mag was a ‘sandbox’ for Burroughs to play in and experiment with, primarily by publishing his own meta or sub-zines such as ‘The Moving Times’ and ‘The Burrough’. The first appearance of the former was in No. 5 the ‘Special Tangier Edition’, the front cover depicts a naively line-drawn Burroughs in a fez, smoking a cigarette. The free-for-all ethos of My Own Mag allowed Burroughs to introduce his cut ups directly into the text in a facsimile format, as with the 32 grid cut up manuscript entitled “Warning Warning Warning Warning Warning” in No. 5. My Own Mag was also where he began his long-lasting and fruitful collaborations with the aforementioned Claude Pélieu and Carl Weissner.

1. MY OWN MAG, No. 1, edited by Jeff Nuttall
Barnet: Homosap Inc, November 1963

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover sheet, 8” x 13”, 4 pages, mimeograph printed.

Contributors: Jeff Nuttall, Keith Musgrove.

Note: according to Iain Sinclair Books, list 28, this issue was duplicated by “the French Teacher” at Nuttall’s school: Bob Cobbing.

2. MY OWN MAG, No. 2, edited by Jeff Nuttall
Barnet: Homosap Inc, December 1963

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover sheet, 8” x 13”, 4 pages, 50 copies, mimeograph printed.

Contributors: Jeff Nuttall, Anselm Hollo, William S. Burroughs [“From H. B. William S. Burroughs” (M&M C93) (BS C57)].

3. MY OWN MAG, No. 3, edited by Jeff Nuttall
Barnet: Homosap Inc, February 1964

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover sheet, 8” x 13”, 6 pages, mimeograph printed.

Contributors: Jeff Nuttall, Anselm Hollo, Keith Musgrove, Ray Gosling.

4. MY OWN MAG, No. 4, edited by Jeff Nuttall
Barnet: Homosap, March 1964

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover sheet, 8” x 13”, 8 pages plus insert, mimeograph printed.

Contributors: Jeff Nuttall, William S. Burroughs [“Warning Warning Warning Warning Warning Warning Warning Warning Warning” (M&M C94) (BS C84)], Alan Brownjohn, Anselm Hollo, John MacCarthy, Peter Currell Brown.

5. MY OWN MAG, No. 5, edited by Jeff Nuttall
Barnet: Homosap Inc, May 1964

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover sheet, 8” x 13”, 8 pages, mimeograph printed. Published as the Tangiers Special Issue.

Contributors: Jeff Nuttall, William S. Burroughs [“The Moving Times” [No. 1] (M&M C100 [see also M&M C232]) (BS C81, C85)].

Note: The Moving Times [No. 1] is a broadsheet edited by Burroughs, appearing as pages 3 and 4 of My Own Mag, No. 5, and containing three columns: “February 10, 1964. ‘We Will Travel Not Only in Space But in Time As Well.’”, “January 17, 1947. English Made Easy for Beginners. It Revolves Flexible Formula.”, “September 17, 1899. Last Gun Post Erased in a Small Town Newspaper, September 17, 1899.”

6. MY OWN MAG, No. 6, edited by Jeff Nuttall
Barnet: Homosap Inc, July 1964
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover sheet, 8” x 13”, 10 pages, mimeograph printed.

Contributors: Keith Musgrove, Jeff Nuttall, Islwyn Watkins, Bob Knapp, Geoffrey Hyman, Ray Gosling, Anselm Hollo, B.S. Johnson, Bartholomew & Wilcox, John McCarthy, Peter Currell Brown, John Rowan, William S. Burroughs [“The Burrough” [No. 1] (M&M C95) (BS C67, C86)].

Note: The Burrough [No. 1] is a broadsheet edited by Burroughs, appearing as pages 3 and 4 of My Own Mag, No. 6, and containing “Afternoon Ticker Tape”.

7. MY OWN MAG, No. 7, edited by Jeff Nuttall
Barnet: Homosap Inc, July 1964

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover sheet, 8” x 13”, 8 pages, mimeograph printed.

Contributors: Jeff Nuttall, Joanna, John Lowton, Peter Scott, Alden Van Buskirk, William S. Burroughs [“Bring Your Problems to Lady Sutton Fix”, “The Moving Times” [No. 2]
(M&M C97, C98) (BS C82, C87).

Note: The Moving Times [No. 2] is a broadsheet edited by Burroughs, appearing as pages 7 and 8 of My Own Mag, No. 7, and containing “Over the Last Skyscrapers a Silent Kite”.

8. MY OWN MAG, No. 8, edited by Jeff Nuttall
Barnet: Homosap Inc, August 1964

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover sheet, 8” x 13”, 10 pages, mimeograph printed. Published as the Edinburgh Festival special.

Contributors: Jeff Nuttall, Alexander Trocchi, Bill Butler, Alden Van Buskirk, Malcolm Bandtock, E.J. Moore, Tom McGrath, Dennis J. Winnie, William S. Burroughs [“The Burrough” [No. 2]
(M&M C99) (BS C68, C88)].

Note: The Burrough [No. 2] is a broadsheet edited by Burroughs, appearing as pages 9 and 10 of My Own Mag, No. 8, and containing “What in Horton Hotel Rue Vernet…”.

9. MY OWN MAG, No. 9, edited by Jeff Nuttall
Barnet: Homosap Inc, November 1964

First edition, top-stapled in illustrated cover sheet, 8” x 13”, 12 pages, mimeograph printed. Published as the Special Post-Election issue.

Contributors: Jeff Nuttall, Arthur Moyse, Pete Barry, Dick Wilcocks, Joanna, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, Alden Van Buskirk, Tom McGrath, Pete Barry, Dennis J. Winnie, John Latham, William S. Burroughs [“The Moving Times” [No. 3] (M&M C101, C102) (BS C83, C89)].

Note: The Moving Times [No. 3] is a broadsheet edited by Burroughs, appearing as pages 11 and 12 of My Own Mag, No. 9, and containing “Extracts from Letter to Homosap”, “Personals Special to The Moving Times”.

10. MY OWN MAG, No. 10, edited by Jeff Nuttall
Barnet: My Own Mag, December 1964

First edition, side-stapled in illustrated cover sheet, 8” x 13”, 10 pages, mimeograph printed. Published as the All British Number.

Contributors: Jeff Nuttall, Tonk, Tom McGrath, Dick Wilcocks, Lionel Kearns, Bill Butler, Bob Knapp, Gary Lundberg, Joanna, Dave Cunliffe, Pete Barry.

11. MY OWN MAG, No. 11, edited by Jeff Nuttall
Barnet: My Own Mag, February 1965

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover sheet, 8” x 13”, 12 pages plus insert, mimeograph printed.

Contributors: Jeff Nuttall, Dick Wilcocks, Tonk, Anselm Hollo, Michael McClure, William S. Burroughs [“Item that appeared in the Sunday Times…”, “The Moving Times” [No. 4] (M&M C105-C108) (BS C110, C113)].

Note: The Moving Times [No. 4] is a broadsheet edited by Burroughs, appearing as pages 13 and 14 of My Own Mag, No. 11, and containing “Tomorrow’s News Today, December 28”, “December 29, Tuesday Was the Last Day for Singing Years”.

12. MY OWN MAG, No. 12, edited by Jeff Nuttall
Barnet: My Own Mag, May 1965

First edition, top-stapled in printed and illustrated cover sheet, 8” x 13”, 14 pages plus inserts, mimeograph printed.

Contributors: Jeff Nuttall, Peter Currell Brown, Carl Weissner, Anthony Edkins, Tony Nuttall, Martin Bax, Dave Rogers, William S. Burroughs [“The Last Words of Dutch Schultz, Found and Transcripted with Intersection Points Underlined”, “The Apomorphine Times” [No. 1] (M&M C112, C113) (BS C96, C114)].

Note: The Apomorphine Times, [No. 1] is a broadsheet edited by Burroughs, appearing as pages 17 and 18 of My Own Mag, No. 12, and containing “Letter to Sunday Times”.

13. MY OWN MAG, No. 13, edited by Jeff Nuttall
Barnet: My Own Mag, August 1965

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover sheet, 9” x 11.5”, 14 pages, 500 numbered copies, mimeograph printed. Published as the Dutch Schultz Special issue.

Contributors: Jeff Nuttall, Andrew Lloyd, Donatella Manganotti, George Dowden, George MacBeth, Cavan McCarthy, Miles, John Moore, Keith Musgrove, Phil Cohen, Carl Weissner, William S. Burroughs [“The Dead Star” (M&M C122) (BS C115)].

Note: prints facsimile of Burroughs’ three-column layout manuscript.

14. MY OWN MAG, No. 14, edited by Jeff Nuttall
Barnet: Jeff Nuttall, December 1965

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover sheet, 8” x 13”, 12 pages plus cover booklet, mimeograph printed.

Contributors: Jeff Nuttall, Brian Patten, Lea Klaus, Mike Kustow, Peter Currell Brown, Islwyn Watkins, Carl Weissner, Tom McGrath, Charles Plymell, Bill Butler, Charles Marowitz, Cole, Tonk, Phil Cohen, Dick Wilcocks, John Keys, William S. Burroughs [“The Moving Times” [No. 6]
(M&M C131) (BS C112, C116)]

Note: The Moving Times [No. 6] is a broadsheet edited by Burroughs, appearing as pages 22-24 of My Own Mag, No. 14, and containing material by Carl Weissner.

15. MY OWN MAG, No. 15, edited by Jeff Nuttall
Barnet: My Own Mag, April 1966

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover sheet, 8” x 13”, 20 pages, mimeograph printed.

Contributors: Jeff Nuttall, Bill Butler, John Moore, J.J. Crodforel, Roger Kettle, Nick Snow, John Keys, Renee Mion, William S. Burroughs [“The Moving Times” [No. 7] (M&M C137-C140) (BS C141-C142)], Claude Pelieu.

Note: The Moving Times [No. 7] is a broadsheet edited by Burroughs, appearing as pages 9-14 of My Own Mag, No. 15, and containing “Nut Note on the Column Cutup Thing”, “WB Talking”, “Quantities of the Gas Girls”, [untitled] “There I Was in the Corpse Finger…”.

16. MY OWN MAG, No. 16, edited by Jeff Nuttall
Barnet: My Own Mag, May 1966

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover sheet, 8” x 13”, 8 pages plus insert, mimeograph printed.

Contributors: Jeff Nuttall, Bernard Marzalek, Carl Weissner.

17. MY OWN MAG, No. 17, edited by Jeff Nuttall
Barnet: My Own Mag, September 1966

First edition, top-stapled in printed and illustrated cover sheet, 8” x 13”, 20 pages, mimeograph printed.

Contributors: Jeff Nuttall, Bernard Marzalek, Carl Weissner, Dan Georgakas, Jim Haynes, Morgan Gibson, Phil Cohen, Eli Wiegal, Klaus Lea, Steve M. Ryan, Dick Wilcocks, Douglas Blazek, George Dowden, Renee Mion, Claude Pelieu, William Wantling.

References consulted:

Maynard, Joe and Barry Miles. William S. Burroughs: A Bibliography, 1953-73: Unlocking Inspector Lee’s Word Hoard
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1978. (ref. M&M)

Schottlaender, Brian E. C. Anything But Routine: A Selectively Annotated Bibliography of William S. Burroughs
San Diego: UC San Diego Libraries, 2012 (ref. BS)

Online resources:

· Reality Studio – My Own Mag
· Schottlaender Bibliography

Cut-Up Method

The cut-up technique (or découpé in French) is an aleatory literary technique in which a text is cut up and rearranged to create a new text. The concept can be traced to at least the Dadaists of the 1920s, but was popularized in the late 1950s and early 1960s by writer William S. Burroughs…

The following is a select and incomplete checklist

MAGAZINES

ARCADE, Nos. 1-5, edited by Martin Leman
London: Arcade, 1964-1966
Contributors include: William S. Burroughs, David Cripps, David Kozubei, Stan Peskett, Ron Sandford, Rufus Segar, Georges Sheridan. Issue No.1 is Special Burroughs issue (Maynard & Miles C84-86).

BULLETIN FROM NOTHING, Nos. 1-2, edited by Mary Beach and Claude Pélieu
San Francisco: Beach Books, 1965
Contributors include: Chano Pozo, Mary Beach, William S. Burroughs, Claude Pélieu, Bob Kaufman

FRUIT CUP, No. 0, edited by Mary Beach and Claude Pélieu
New York: Beach Books, 1969
Contributors include: Allen Ginsberg, Wallace Berman, William S. Burroughs, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Claude Pélieu, Edward Sanders, Jan Jacques Lebel, Mary Beach, Tuli Kupferberg, Peter Orlovsky, Albert Hoffman, Rochelle Owens

GINGER SNAPS, edited by Michael Gibbs and Hammond Guthrie
Exeter: Kontexts, March 1972
Contributors include Williams S. Burroughs (“Abstract”), Harold Norse, Allen Ginsberg, Mary Beach, Jan Herman, Carl Weissner, Jürgen Ploog, Claude Pélieu, Bob Kaufman, Tuli Kupferberg, Charles Plymell, Tom Phillips, John Giorno, Jochen Gerz

GNAOUA, No. 1, edited by Ira Cohen
Tangier: Gnaoua Press, 1964
Contributors include: William S. Burroughs, Ian Sommerville, Brion Gysin, Harold Norse, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, J. Sheeper, Jack Smith, Marc Shleifer, Mohammed Ben Abdullah Yussufi (translated by Irving Rosenthal), J. Weir, Stuart Gordon, Tatiana, Alfred Jarry, (translated by George Andrews), Jabouna Min Soudan (translated by Christopher Wanklyn)

GROWING HAND, edited by Vincent J. Cresciman
San Francisco: Growing Hand, 1967
Contributors include: Irving Rosenthal, Ira Cohen, Alphonse Bouguereau, Fielding Dawson, Peter Birnbaum, Harold Norse, Melvin Clay, Susan Sherman, Piero Heliczer, Vincent Cresciman, John Foret, Maya Andrews.

THE INSECT TRUST GAZETTE, Nos. 1-3, edited by Leonard Belasco, Jed Irwin, Robert Basara, and Bill Levy
Philadelphia and San Francisco: Insect Trust Gazette, 1964-1968
Contributors include: Stewart Paley, Thomas Jackrell, William Levy, Michael Benedikt, Jed Irwin, William S. Burroughs, Leonard Belasco, Robert Basara, Stuart Gordon, Jackson Mac Low, Brion Gysin, Conrad A. Belano, Carol Bergé, Max Ernst & Paul Eluard, Paul Klee, Hans Arp, Antonin Artaud, Jean Genet.

Intrepid, edited by Allen DeLoach (Buffalo, 1969) [No. 14/15, Special Burroughs issue].

Klacto 23, edited by Carl Weissner (Heidleberg, New York, Frankfurt, 1965-1969).

The Last Times, edited by Charles Plymell and Claude Pélieu (San Francisco, 1967).

The Moving Times, edited by William S. Burroughs and Alex Trocchi (London 1963).

My Own Mag, edited by Jeff Nuttall (London 1963-1967).

Notes from Underground, edited by John Bryan (San Francisco, 1970) [No. 3].

Residu, edited by Daniel Richter (Athens and London, 1965-1966).

The San Francisco Earthquake, edited by Jan Herman (San Francisco, 1967-1969)

UFO, edited by Jurgen Ploog, Jorg Fauser, Carl Weissner (Frankfurt, 1971-1972).

COLLABORATIONS / ANTHOLOGIES

The Braille Film. Carl Weissner, William S. Burroughs (San Francisco: Nova Broadcast Press, 1970)

Brion Gysin Let The Mice In, edited by Jan Herman with texts by William Burroughs and Ian Sommerville (West Glover: Something Else Press 1973).

The Exterminator. Brion Gysin and William Burroughs (San Francisco: Auerhahn Press/Dave Haselwood Books, 1960, 1967).

Minutes to Go. Brion Gysin, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso and Sinclair
Belles (Paris: Two Cities Editions, 1960; San Francisco: Beach Books,
1968).

Oeuvre Croisee (The Third Mind). Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs (Paris: Flammarion, 1976; New York: Viking Press, 1978; London: John
Calder, 1979).

So Who Owns Death TV? William S. Burroughs, Claude Pélieu, Carl Weissner (San Francisco: Beach Books, Texts & Documents, 1967).

MARY BEACH

Electric Banana (Darmstadt: Melzer Verlag, 1970).

WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

The Soft Machine (Paris: Olympia Press, 1959; New York: Grove Press, 1963).

The Ticket That Exploded (Paris: Olympia Press, 1962; New York: Grove Press, 1967).

Nova Express (New York: Grove Press, 1964) The final part of the cut-up trilogy. (Maynard & Miles A10a)

BRION GYSIN

The Process (New York: Doubleday, 1969; London: Jonathan Cape,
1970).

… and more to come with Claude Pélieu, Harold Norse, others…

Souce, in part: AQ14 CUT UP, 1973.