Kulchur, Issue 1, Spring 1960

Burroughs contributes “The Conspiracy”, a previously-unpublished section from Naked Lunch, pp. 5-8.

Published in New York City by The Totem Press in Spring of 1960.

"The Conspiracy" was later included in the book White Subway.

This copy was formerly in the collection of Darin Scope.

I hold a second copy within an archive of the run of Kulchur.

Bibliographic Information:

• M&M C19
• Shoaf III.15
• Schottlaender v4.C17
• Raven 19600400KULC.0.1

Contents: 

• Stephen Solosy: cover design
• William S. Burroughs: "The Conspiracy" (prose)
• Tuli Kupferberg: quote
• Erick Hawkins: "Here and Now" (essay)
• Mike Cuesta: photograph
• Donald Phelps: "The Muck School" (essay)
• Diane di Prima: "Whims" (poetry)
• Charles Olson: "Pieces of Time (Proprioception/Logography)" (essay)
• Fielding Dawson: quote
• Basil King: drawings
• Paul Bowles: "Ketama-Taza" (prose)
• Liana Drilling: quote
• Allen Ginsberg: "Paterson" (poetry)
• Marian Zazeela: woodcut
• John Fles: "The Root" (essay on Creeley)
• Dienel Drilling: quote
• Martin Williams: "The Innocent Bystander – Ike, Mr. Dillon, and the PTA" (essay)
• Robert Nichols: "First City Snow" (poetry)
• Richard Kraft: "The Jazz Age in the American Film" (essay)
• Marc Schleifer: quote

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Marc D. Schleifer [later: Prof. S. Abballah Schleifer]
• Contributing Editors: John Fles, LeRoi Jones, Charles Olson, Donald Phelps, Martin Williams
• Editorial Assistant: Barbara Kramer