In case anyone's interested, well I am, I saw today that the Calder bookshop on The Cut in London SE hosts a talk on March 10 by John Calder himself, reminiscing about his early encounters with William Seward. Plus readings by actors from early and I guess other work.
Only three quid. Sounds well worth it to me. He might not be to everyone's taste but IMHO he turned literature upside down, and not before time. "Like having your nose nailed to someone else's lavatory" was what one member of the bourgeois literary establishment said of Naked Lunch. Well, that's a good enough testament for me.
Moorcock, Ballard and in America, Burroughs. These three post-war I could not do without.
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Only three quid. Sounds well worth it to me. He might not be to everyone's taste but IMHO he turned literature upside down, and not before time. "Like having your nose nailed to someone else's lavatory" was what one member of the bourgeois literary establishment said of Naked Lunch. Well, that's a good enough testament for me.
Moorcock, Ballard and in America, Burroughs. These three post-war I could not do without.

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