Via Dangerous Minds, I’ve never seen David Bowie describe “Ziggy Stardust” to this extent:
Burroughs: Could you explain this Ziggy Stardust image of yours? From what I can see it has to do with the world being on the eve of destruction within five years.
Bowie: The time is five years to go before the [...]

Via Technoccult comes news of this monumental release by Fantagraphics of Burroughs’ graphic novel Ah Pook is Here:
The book was conceived as a single painting in which text and images were combined in whatever form seemed appropriate to the narrative. It was conceived as 120 continuous pages that would “fold out.” Such a [...]

This whole interview with William Burroughs’ biographer is worth a read. A piece:
SF: Did Burroughs have any opinion about the 2012 issue? Positive or negative societal transformation (with or without the supernatural whispers surrounding the date)? Any hope for mankind really figuring out the various mechanisms of control he’d been writing about all his [...]

This is immense.  A letter from Jack Kerouac (via Dangerous Minds via Letters of Note):

It says:
Dear Lucien & Cessa — Writing to you by candlelight from the mysterious Casbah — have a magnificent room overlooking the beach & the bay & the sea & can see Gibraltar — patio to sun on, room [...]

Philip Heying, who I recently got in touch with again via a Facebook post about 2012, has a great post up on Reality Sandwich about his dispiriting stay in Kansas. I met him via a friend from Paris and we hung out a bit in New York. I remember a pretty strange birthday [...]