Grand Street, Volume 15, Number 3, Issue 59 ("Time"), Winter 1997

Includes "Ports of Entry", an introduction & concluding statement by William S. Burroughs surrounding a discussion between Burroughs and Brion Gysin, transcribed from a tape made at the Beat Hotel in 1960, pp. 70-79.  With photographs of them both and with images of Gysin artworks.

Published in New York City by Grand Street Press, New York Foundation for the Arts, in Winter of (early) 1997.

Bibliographic Information:

• Shoaf III.412
• Schottlaender v4.C644
• Raven 19970100GSTRE.15.3

Contents:

• Mike Davis: "Dark Raptures: A Consumers' Guide to the Destruction of Los Angeles" (essay)
• Luis Buñuel: "Why I Don't Wear a Watch" (prose)
• Charles Ray: "1953..." (art)
• Dennis Cooper & Charles Ray: "An Interview With Charles Ray" (interview)
• James Tate: "Restless Leg Syndrome" (poetry)
• John King: "The Football Factory" (prose)
• Joseph Lease: "Two Poems":
• "Essay on Addiction" (poetry)
• "Thief" (poetry)
• Spain (Rodriguez): "Libidinous Boulevards" (art)
• Carlo McCormick: on Spain Rodriguez (essay)
• Timothy Liu: "Two Poems":
• "Nocturne: Fire Island" (poetry)
• "Two Men On a Bench Watching the Light Die Down" (poetry)
• William S. Burroughs & Brion Gysin: "Ports of Entry" (essay/interview)
• Various: "Art Charts: Timelines by Artists" (art)
• CPLY (William N. Copley): "The Evil I or The Story of My Life" (art)
• Walter Hopps: on CPLY (essay)
• Adam Lefevre: "Two Poems":
• "Number Theory" (poetry)
• "Halftime" (poetry)
• John Szarkowski & Hilton Als: "Looking at Pictures" (interview/photography)
• Walter Hopps: introduction to "Looking at Pictures" (essay)
• Lynn Davis: "Stealing Time" (photography)
• Giorgio Manganelli: "From Centuria" (prose)
• Clayton Eshleman: "De Kooning's Woman I" (poetry)
• Ilya Kabakov: "The Boat of my Life" (art)
• Kenneth Rosen: "Death in March" (poetry)
• Naguib Mahfouz: "From Echoes of an Autobiography" (prose)
• Adonis: "The Time" (poetry)
• Étienne-Jules Marey: "Chronophotographs" (art)
• Jackie McAllister: on Étienne-Jules Marey (essay)
• Angela Krauss: "Currents" (prose)
• Richard Misrach: "Bravo 20 Bombing Range, Nevada" (photography)
• Rebecca Solnit: on Richard Misrach (essay)
• Erin Belieu: "Nocturne: My Sister Life" (prose)
• György Ligeti: "Le Grand Macabre" (opera)
• Peter Sellars: introduction to "Le Grand Macabre" (essay)
• Nina Berberova: "Roquenval (Chronicle of a Château)" (prose)

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Jean Stein
• Managing Editor: Deborah Treisman
• Art Editor: Walter Hopps
• Poetry Editor: William Corbett
• Design: J. Abbott Miller, Luke Hayman, Paul Carlos
• Assistant Editor: Julie A. Tate
• Assistant Art Editor: Anne Doran
• Administrative Assistant: Lisa Brodus
• Interns: Layla Hearth, Christina Persico
• Advisory Editors: Hilton Als, Edward W. Said
• Contributing Editors: Dominique Bourgois, Colin de Land, Mike Davis, Raymond Foye, Jonathan Gelassi, Stephen Graham, Dennis Hopper, Hudson, Jane Kramer, Erik Rieselbach, Jeremy Treglown, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Wendy vanden Heuvel, John Waters, Drenka Willen
• Founding Contributing Editor: Andrew Kopkind
• Publishers: Jean Stein, Torsten Wiesel
• Printing: Hull Printing (Meriden, CT.)
• Cover Art: Charles Ray
• Back Cover: Richard Misrach