Lapham’s Quarterly, Volume 6, Number 1 (“Intoxication”), Winter 2013

Burroughs contributes an extended quote from The Burroughs File entitled "The Beginning Is Also the End", p.211.

Published in New York City by the American Agora Foundation in Winter of 2013.

This copy acquired from Jeff Hirsch Books (Wadsworth, IL.).

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 20130100LQUA.6.1

Contents:

• Lewis H. Lapham: "Alms for Oblivion" (essay)
• Emile Lévy: "Death of Orpheus" (painting)
• Jacob A. Riis: "A Downtown 'Morgue'" (photograph)
• Charles Baudelaire: self-portrait (painting)
• David Sedaris: "The Urge" (prose)
• Peter Paul Rubens: "The Drunken Silenus" (painting)
• Seneca the Younger: "Sometimes It's Sweet to be Mad" (essay)
• Otomo Tabito: "Soaking in Saké" (poetry)
• Dennis Hopper: "Drug Store" (painting)
• Thomas De Quincey: from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (prose)
• Harpo Marx: from Harpo Speaks! (prose)
• Ian Berry: photograph
• Honoré de Balzac: from The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (prose)
• Jam Metsys: "The Merry Company" (painting)
• Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett: from POPism (prose)
• Emile Bernard: "Smoking Haschisch" (painting)
• Christopher Simon Sykes: photograph of Keith Richards
• Giacomo Casanova: from The Story of My Life (prose)
• John Milton: from Paradise Lost (poetry)
• James Joyce: from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (prose)
• Little Turtle: speech
• Will Cotton: "Jessica" (painting)
• Marguerite Duras: from Practicalities (prose)
• Martin Luther: letter
• Frederick Douglass: from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (prose)
• Michael Pollan: from Opium Made Easy
• Stuart Franklin: photograph
• Louis Finson: "The Ecstasy of Mary Magdalene" (painting)
• Emily Dickinson: "Poem 207" (poetry)
• Sylvia Plath: from The Bell Jar (prose)
• Archilochus
• William Langland: from Piers Plowman (poetry)
• Otto Preminger: frame from The Man With the Golden Arm
• Richard Henry Dana Jr.: from Two Years Before the Mast (prose)
• Unknown: from the Rigveda (prose)
• Robert Capa: photograph
• Jean Gouweloos: "The Pleasure of Smoking" (painting)
• John Keats: "Ode to a Nightingale" (poetry)
• Christina Garcia Rodero: photograph
• Nick Reding: from Methland (prose)
• Florian Paucke: "The Effect of Alcohol on the Indians in the Time of Conquest" (drawing)
• King James I: from A Counterblaste to Tobacco (essay)
• Conroy Maddox: "Reflections" (painting)
• Fitz Hugh Ludlow: from The Hasheesh Eater (prose)
• Albert Hofmann: from LSD: My Problem Child (essay)
• Judith Leyster: "The Last Drop" (painting)
• François Rabelais: from Gargantua and Pantagruel (prose)
• Roald Dahl: from Mr. Botibol (prose)
• W. B. Yeats: "A Drinking Song" (poetry)
• Guy Hamilton: frame from Goldfinger 
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge: "Kubla Khan; Or, a Vision in a Dream. A Fragment" (poetry)
• Dock Ellis: excerpt from an interview
• Omar Khayyam: from The Rubaiyat (poetry)
• Xenophon: from The Education of Cyrus (prose)
• Dorothy Parker: "Just a Little One" (prose)
• Hieronymous Bosch: detail from "The Last Judgment" (painting
• Ed Ruscha: "Three Darvans and Two Valiums" (painting)
• Lovis Corinth: "Self-Portrait with Charlotte Berend" (painting)
• Stendhal: from Rome, Naples, and Florence (prose)
• Honoré Daumier: "Two Drinkers" (painting)
• Hermann Hesse: from A Guest at the Spa (prose)
• Steve McCurry: photograph
• Charles Mackay: from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions (prose)
• Dirk Valkenburg: "Bacchus in the Court of Midas" (painting)
• Dennis Covington: from Salvation on Sand Mountain (prose)
• Oliver Goldsmith: from The Citizen of the World (essay)
• Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira: etching of Mura Indian (art)
• Plato: from The Symposium (prose)
• Peter Max: "Toulouse Lautrec" (painting)
• Nathaniel Currier: "The Drunkard's Progress: from the First Glass to the Grave" (etching)
• Jacqueline Susann: from The Valley of the Dolls (prose)
• Herman Melville: from Moby Dick (prose)
• Ferdinando Scianna: photograph
• Jack Kerouac: from On the Road (prose)
• William Hogarth: "Gin Lane" (etching)
• Patrick Süskind: from Perfume (prose
• Georges Raymond: "Dandy Pasha" (photograph)
• John Elliotson: from Numerous Cases of Surgical Operations Without Pain in the Mesmeric State (essay)
• Philippe Jacques van Bree: "View of the Old Pharmacy from the Hospital of St. John" (painting)
• St. Hildegard: from Scivias (prose)
• Mike Nichols: still from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 
• Joan Didion: from Slouching Towards Bethlehem (prose)
• William T. Vollmann: from The Atlas (prose)
• Thomas Couture: "The Romans During the Decadence" (painting)
• Sappho: "Poem 31" (poetry)
• Countee Cullen: "Harlem Wine" (poetry)
• Salvador Dalí: "The Phenomenon of Ecstasy" (collage)
• Walter Benjamin: "Hashish in Marseille" (prose)
• William Biddulph: from Travels of Certain Englishmen (essay)
• David Teniers the Younger: "The Baby King" (painting)
• Michaelangelo Merisi da Carravaggio: "Sick Bacchus" (painting)
• Bill Clegg: from Ninety Days (prose)
• Fortune Joseph Seraphin Leyraud: "The Morning After" (painting)
• Kingsley Amis: from On Drink (essay)
• Brian De Palma: still from Scarface 
• Yoshida Kenko: from Essays in Idleness (prose)
• Vincent van Gogh: "The Drinkers" (painting)
• unknown: from The Thousand and One Nights (prose)
• Peter Bruegel the Younger: "Return from the Inn" (painting)
• Anne Roiphe: from Art and Madness (prose)
• Pliny the Elder: from Natural History (prose)
• Abbas: photograph
• Leo Tolstoy: from "Why Do Men Stupefy Themselves?" (essay)  
• Francis Bacon: "Lying Figure with Hypodermic Syringe" (painting
• Art and Laurie Pepper: from Straight Life (prose)
• Achille Zo: "The Dream of the Believer" (painting)
• Lin Zexu: from a letter
• Elliott Landy: photograph
• Quintus Curtius Rufus: from History of the Life and Reign of Alexander the Great" (prose)
• Richard Estes: "Drugs" (photograph)
  
• Dennis Johnson: "Dundun" (prose)
• Diego Velásquez: "The Triumph of Bacchus" (painting)
• Friedrich Engels: from The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 (essay)
• George Cruikshannk: "The Headache" (painting
• Frank Lucas & Nicky Barnes: excerpt from an interview
• William Bradford: from Of Plymouth Plantation (prose)
• Pedanius Dioscorides: from De Materia Medica (painting)
• Frank O'Connor: from "In Quest of Beer" (essay)
• Li Bai: "Something Said, Waking Drunk on a Spring Day" (poetry)
• Abraham Lincoln: speech excerpt
• James Boswell: from The Life of Samuel Johnson (interview)
• George Wesley Bellows: "The Drunk" (drawing)
• Kay Redfield Jamison: from An Unquiet Mind (prose)
• John Addington Symonds: from a letter 
• Billie Holiday & William Duffy: from Lady Sings the Blues (prose)
• unknown: from The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (prose)
• F. Scott Fitzgerald: from a letter
• Ernest Hemingway: from a leter
• Yan Geng: "The Demon-Queller Zhong Kui Giving His Sister Away in Marriage" (drawing)
• Pablo Picasso: "Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto" (painting)
• Sven Birkerts: "Fabled Powers" (prose)
• Galina Golikova and Gerald Lang: "Leaf 15" (drawing)
• Henri Fantin-Latour: "By the Table" (painting)
• Peter Marlow: photograph
• Rebecca Lemon: "Players Club" (prose)
• Damien Hirst: "The Sleep of Reason" (sculpture)
• John Keats: "Lines on the Mermaid Tavern" (poetry)
• Raymond Chandler: "The Long Goodbye" (prose)
• Theognis: poem
• Jack London: "John Barleycorn, or Alcoholic Memoirs" (prose)
• Stephen Crane: "Opium's Varied Dream" (prose)
• William S. Burroughs: "The Beginning Is Also the End" (prose)
• Ewa Gargulinska: "Memory Remains" (painting)
• Maxfield Parrish: "A Christmas Toast" (painting)

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Lewis Lapham
• Publisher: Lewis Lapham
• Executive Editor: Kira Brunner Don
• Associate Editors: Elias Altman, Aidan Flax-Clark, Michelle Legro
• Art Director: Timothy Don
• Graphic Designer: Jason David Brown
• Associate Publisher: Hugh Malone