Manuscripts removed from Minutes to Go, 1959-1960.

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Manuscripts removed from Minutes to Go, 1959-1960.

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The following manuscript items have been removed from Minutes to Go / [by] Sinclair Beiles, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso [and] Brion Gysin. -- [Paris] : Jean Fanchette [1960] -- copy in the Harris Collection, John Hay Library, Brown University. Back flyleaf contains tipped-in envelope (marked "Cut These Up Yourselves. Minutes to Go") which originally contained : [1] ACS from Gregory Corso to Burroughs, 1959, August 6; [2] ALS from Jean Fanchette to Roger G. Stoddard, 1960 August 31; [3] TLS from Burroughs to Irving [?], 1959 August 31; [4]-[5] 2 AMss of Brion Gysin, including [Poems to cut up], 1960, and [Original ink drawing to cut up], n.d; [6] TLS from Sinclair Beiles to Burroughs, [1960?] August 23.

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Brown University Archives, John Hay Library

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Fanchette, Jean

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Beiles, Sinclair Simon Maurice

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Corso, Gregory

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American writer, primarily of poetry, Corso was born in New York City in 1930. He worked as a migrant laborer, newspaper reporter for the L.A. Examiner, and merchant seaman before joining the English Department at SUNY Buffalo in 1965. In the mid-1950s he began to give public readings of his poetry, often sharing the stage with other Beat poets. His 1958 volume, GASOLINE, marks the beginning of his long association with San Francisco's City Lights Bookstore and the Bay Area in general, which fig...

Gysin, Brion.

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Brion Gysin was born on January 19, 1916, in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England. Gysin first established himself as a painter, attending the Sorbonne from 1934-1935 and associating with figures such as Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, and Salvador Dali. In 1935 he participated in the Surrealist Drawing Exhibitions, although his work was withdrawn by Surrealist founder Andre Breton. Gysin also attended the University of Bordeaux from 1949-1952 and Archivos de India at the University of Seville from 1952-195...

Stoddard, Roger G.,

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Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997

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William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) was an American experimental novelist, "beat" poet, and cultural icon. From the guide to the William S. Burroughs Letter, undated, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) William S. Burroughs (1914-1997), American novelist, essayist, writer of experimental fiction. A primary member of the Beat generation, he was an avant-garde author who affected postwar popular culture as well as literature. From the ...