Richard Byrne's "Hotel Mayflower" (2024)

Germany: Moloko Print / Moloko+ (book, 1st, German and English), 2024.
7.375" x 5.5" x 0.625", 246 pages, bilingual, softcover, ISBN 978-3-910431-15-7.

Richard Byrne's Hotel Mayflower, a play about the intersections between William S. Burroughs, his first wife Ilse Herzfeld Klapper, who he saved from the Nazis, and anti-fascist author Ernst Toller. Published by Moloko Print (Germany) in 2024, designed by Ralf Zühlke, translated by Mark Kanak.

The center of the book, which is divided between the English and German translations, contains 15 pages of photos, including several of Burroughs.

This copy was received from Jeffrey Weinberg at Water Row Books (Boston, Massachusetts).

Contents: 

• Hotel Mayflower [English]:
• Characters
•  Playwright's Notes
• Scene One
• Scene Two
• Scene Three
• Scene Four
• [photo section]
• Hotel Mayflower [German]:
• Personen
• Anmerkungen des Autors
• Szene Eins
• Szene Zwei
• Szene Drei
• Szene Vier
• Afterword
• Nachwort
• Dedication
• Widmung
• [biographies]