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A 1973 Ballantine edition of William Burroughs’ novel with a cover illustration from Metamorphosis of Narcissus<\/a> (1937) by Salvador Dal\u00ed. Via the Burroughs Book Covers<\/a> archive.<\/em><\/p>\n The Sel Publishing House, Turkey, published a new translation of The Soft Machine<\/em> by William Burroughs in January, an edition which is now under investigation by the Istanbul Prosecutor\u2019s Office following a report by the (deep breath) Prime Ministry\u2019s Council for Protecting Minors from Explicit Publications. The Council lodged a number of complaints, among them assertions of \u201clacking unity in its subject matter,\u201d \u201cincompliance with narrative unity,\u201d \u201cusing slang and colloquial terms\u201d and \u201cthe application of a fragmented narrative style.\u201d Details here<\/a>. Does Turkey still want to join the EU? Because this kind of persistently illiberal bullshit (see the earlier treatment of Orhan Pamuk<\/a>) isn’t helping their case at all.<\/p>\n \u2022 Related to the above: Evan J Peterson reads Allen Ginsberg’s Howl<\/em><\/a> in the toilet of a Seattle gay bar; Ginsberg himself reads Kaddish<\/em> and other works here<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 More illiberal bullshit: LGBT activists arrested during royal wedding<\/a>; Queer Resistance released a statement<\/a> about the arrests. MPs, activists and trade unionists condemn new attacks on the right to protest<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 The Dorian Gray That Wilde Would Want Us To Read<\/a>. Harvard University Press publishes an uncensored and annotated edition of Wilde’s novel. Kudos for using Caravaggio’s Narcissus<\/em><\/a> on the cover.<\/p>\n One weekend in late 1967, they all decamped to a hotel suite in California’s Ojai Valley for a brainstorming session. Amid clouds of pot smoke, they talked all weekend with the tape recorder running. [Jack] Nicholson then took the tapes and turned the conversations into a screenplay; according to Rafelson, he structured it while on LSD.<\/p>\n Revisiting The Monkees’ psychedelic movie, Head<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Kraftwerk icons<\/a> for Windows and Mac OS X by Dave Brasgalla.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2022 Robert Louis Stevenson gets his revenge on sneaky literary agent \u2013 120 years later<\/a>. And Michael Moorcock imagines tales of unseen Mervyn Peake pictures<\/a>.<\/p>\n Painting doesn\u2019t look so good on the web. It looks better in life. Sculpture looks better in life. What you end up with is just a reproduction. Whereas with film or with sound or with poetry, you get the deep primary experience not the secondary experience. The web delivers those primary experiences very well.<\/p>\n Ubuweb’s Kenneth Goldsmith<\/a> interviewed.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u2022 Arkhonia’s Another Dispatch in a World of Multiple Veils<\/em> is now a free download<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 The story of This Is The Sea<\/em><\/a>: An interview with Mike Scott of The Waterboys.<\/p>\n \u2022 Fairlight: The Rolls Royce of synthesizers<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Haeckel Clock<\/a>, a free app for the iPad.<\/p>\n \u2022 What is totalitarian art?<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 Porpoise Song<\/em><\/a> (1968) by The Monkees | Hope For Happiness<\/em><\/a> (1969) by The Soft Machine | I’m A Believer<\/em><\/a> (1974) by Robert Wyatt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A 1973 Ballantine edition of William Burroughs’ novel with a cover illustration from Metamorphosis of Narcissus (1937) by Salvador Dal\u00ed. Via the Burroughs Book Covers archive. 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