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.).

Bibliographic Information: 

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

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