Swank, Volume 8, Number 3, July 1961

 

Burroughs contributes "The Word" from Naked Lunch, pp. 51, 55. 

Also includes "Uncle Bill Burroughs' Guided Tour: Naked Lunch" by John Fles, p. 50.

Published in New York City by Royal Publications in July, 1961.

Bibliographic Information:

• M&M C34
• Shoaf III.26
• Schottlaender v4.C35
• Raven 19610700SWAN.8.3, b10

Selected Contents: 

• news
• Nat Hentoff, Tony Scott, John Williams, Bruce Cook: "The Soul Jazz":
• Nat Hentoff: "Birth of a Jazz Critic" (essay)
• John Williams: "Subject: Charles Parker" (essay)
• Bruce Cook: "Buzz Buzz" (essay)
• Tony Scott: "Gravestone for Lady" (essay)
• Ira Flynn: "The French Touch" (prose)
• Harriet W.: "Notes of a Nude Model" (essay)
• Myron Lench: "A Basket of Dirty Tomatoes" (prose)
• Morton Lewis: "Today, Outsville, Tomorrow – The World!" (prose)
• Clifford S. Smith and Paul Morton Smith: "A Modern Artist Looks at a Modern Woman" (photoessay)
• Tuli Kupferberg: "The Day the Louvre Saw Me" (poetry)
• Swiller: comic
• Gordon Carey: "Father Nemo, Ring Dem Bells!" (prose)
• David McReynolds: "Cocktail Party: The Search for Sex in Hipdom's High Society" (essay)
• Keyes: comic
• S. Harris: comic
• Jonas Mekas: "The Honest Art of Hollywood" (essay)
• de Carlo: comic
• William Blake: quote
• John Fles: "Uncle Bill Burroughs' Guided Tour: Naked Lunch" (essay)
• William S. Burroughs: "The Word" (prose)
• Arendricks: comics
• Gulliver Jones: "Optimist" (poetry)
• Bob Kaufman: "Tin Pan Alley" (poetry)
• fashion
• Art Lutner: comic
• Lundy: comic
• Fred McDarrah: photographs

Publishing Information: 

• Publishers: Irwin Stein, Walter Zacharius
• Editor: Milton J. Shapiro
• Managing Editor: Seymour Krim
• Assistant Editor: S. Bonesio
• Art Director: Howard Winters
• Art Assistant: Marvin Nudelman
• Production: H. Skalet