Lightworks, Issue 7/8, Winter [December] 1977

Burroughs contributes "Take Nirvana", pp. 16-18. A "Time of the Assassins" series work on film and Hollywood.

Published in Ann Arbor, Michigan by Lightworks Magazine, Inc. in late 1977.

The cover of this issue has affixed mylar in the form of a mirror.

Bibliographic Information: 

• Not in Shoaf
• Schottlaender v4.C435, v5.C444
• Raven 19771200LIGH.0.7

Selected Contents:

• mail art
• Rick Greenwald, Peter Bird, Connie Bosley, Ruth Bradley, Jeff Stanley, and Peter Kubelka: "Interview: Peter Kubelka" (interview)
• Lawrence Goodrich: "Laserworks" (essay, installation views)
• William S. Burroughs: "Take Nirvana" (essay)
• Jim Shaw: illustrations
• Gary Grimshaw: "Posters: Ann Arbor 1971-74" (art)
• Shaun Gilmore: photographs
• Guglielmo Achille Cavellini: 
• "Cavellini's Ten Commandments" (prose)
• art
• John Giorno: "excerpt from Everyone Is A Complete Disappointment" (poetry)
  
• Joshua Schreier: photographs
• Paul Shapiro and Barbara Kopple: "The Making of Harlan County U.S.A.: A Conversation with Barbara Kopple" (interview)
• Marilyn Zimmerman: photographs
• Ken Friedman: "Notes on the History of the Alternative Press" (essay)
• Robert L. Murphy: typography
• Gerhard Schlanzky: 
• "Blueprints" (art)
• cover design
• Jim Marshall: "trans-mog-ri-fy" (photographs)
• Anna Banana: "Futurismo" (photographs)
• Inserts:
• "Detroit Edison's Power Distribution Diagram: One Unnecessary Circuit"
• Ken Saville: "Picture Writing of the Eros Culture of the Southwestern U.S.A. in a sunny humor, so much" (ready-to-construct books)
• G. A. Cavellini: "Commemorative Sticker Kunstkompass (Re-made)" (art)

Publishing Information: 

• Designer and Publisher: Eric Keller
• Designer and Editor: Charlton Burch
• Advertising Sales: Kate Michaels