Friday, December 31, 2010

Currently Reading 4

Cinema Inferno edited by Rob Weiner and John Cline (I am featured the companion volume From the Arthouse to the Grindhouse). Cinema Inferno features the likes of Stephen Barber on the Vienna Aktionists and Johannes Schonherr on Hated, as well as many other writers examining a wide range of exploitation and sleaze movies.  Also re-reading Burroughs Live edited by Sylvere Lotringer, a selection of interviews with the author spanning his entire career, pretty much essential reading. Excellent cross reference with Burroughs' Letters 1945 - 1959. An oddity for fans of occulture also, The Occult Explosion by Nat Freedland, which examines the cultural changes around the occult in the 60s.