Grinning Idiot, Issue 1, 1982

Burroughs contributes “Heavily muscled Randy Scott” and “Sung by the…”, p.27. The former can also be found in the essay "Immortality", published in The Adding Machine.

Published in New York City by Grinning Idiot/Jerry Weinberger in 1982.

This copy signed on the cover by another contributor, Charles Bukowski.

This copy acquired from Mast Books (NYC).

Bibliographic Information:

• Shoaf III.326
• Schottlaender v4.C516
• Raven 19820000GIDI.0.1, b9

Contents:

• C. D. Batchelor: source for cover illustration
• Keith Angier: art
• Terry Berkson: "Bab and Willy" (prose)
• Charles Bukowski:
• "doll" (poetry)
• "one for the dark" (poetry)
• "and the trivial lives of royalty never excited me either...." (poetry)
• "yung cats" (poetry)
• "and i still don't vote" (poetry)
• "pain like an old black and white snapshot" (poetry)
• "cheer up" (poetry)
• "the inside horse..." (poetry)
• "darlings of the world" (poetry)
• "the new revolution" (poetry)
• "regrets of a sort..." (poetry)
• William S. Burroughs: "Heavily Muscled Randy Scott..." (lyric)
• John Fahey: "The Historical Subjectivity of the Guitar" (essay)
• Richard Grayson: "Who Swings? Swaps? The Weird Sex Lives of Jewish-American Novelists" (essay)
• Bruce Kleinman: "Amazing How Time Passes" (prose)
• Barry Levy:
• "White Shoes" (poetry)
• "Stone Rose" (poetry)
• "Song of the Common Loon" (poetry)
• Jerry Weinberger: "The Louis Armstrong Story" (prose)

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Jerry Weinberger
• Assistant Editor: Barry Levy
• Art: Keith Angier