The Second Coming, Volume 1, Number 3, March 1962

Burroughs contributes “one chapter from The Novia Express”, pp. 44-45.

Published in New York City by The Second Coming in March, 1962.

This copy acquired from Division Leap (Langlois, OR.). An additional copy of this item is in the archive as well.

Bibliographic Information: 

• M&M C42
• Shoaf III.32
• Schottlaender v4.C46, v5.C46
• Raven 19620300TSCO.1.3, b8

Selected Contents:

• Yosal Rogat: "The Measures Taken: The Eichmann Trial and the Rule of Law" (essay)
• Steve Kowit: "Concerning Birds" (poetry)
• Anthony C. West: untitled poem (poetry)
• W. Eugene Smith: "Ku Klux Klan Portfolio" (photography)
• Roland Barthes: "In the Ring" (essay)
• Robert Hollander: "Pardon Me, Kenneth Koch" (poetry)
• Douglas Woolf:
• "Cougher" (prose)
• "Fair-Weather-Wise" (prose)
• Richard Howard: "The Old Men Playing Bocci on Leroy Street" (poetry)
• Larry Rivers: "Portfolio Drawings" (art)
• William S. Burroughs: "one chapter from The Novia Express" (prose)
• Alfred Eichner: "Trial by Myth" (essay)
• Susan Sontag: "Piety without content" (essay)
• David Gurin: "The spontaneous order of cities" (essay on Jane Jacobs)
• John N. Morris: "The outside story" (essay on Malamud)
• Clement Greenberg: "How art writing earns its bad name" (essay)
• Michael Steinberg: "Bach himself again" (essay)

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Samuel Pitts Edwards
• Business/Advertising: Jack Rennert
• Editors: David Brady, Erwin A. Gilkes, David Rosand, Ken Sobol
• Associate Editors: Roy Hyrkin, Roger J. Larde, Kathleen Marshall
• Art Director: Tony Palladino
• Production: Harry Chester
• Associates: Rosellen Brown, Debra Cole, Alice Davids, Robert Gillespie, Andrew Jaffe
• Business Associate: MArie Basalone