Richard Behrens' "Of Moons and Monoliths" (2018)
New England (region), US: Nine Muses Books (book, essays), 2018.
9" x 6" x 1", 382 pages, softcover, ISBN 978-0-9912784-3-5.
Of Moons and Monoliths: Collected Essays by Richard Behrens, as published (POD) by Nine Muses Books (New England, US) in 2018.
This includes “Unleash the Word Horde: The Life of William S. Burroughs”, pp. 179-197, a rather straight-forward biography of William S. Burroughs. This essay was included in Behutet, issues 29 (Autumn 2005) and 30 (Summer 2006).
Contents:
- Prologue by James Taddeo
- Introduction by Robert Brett Sherry
- Editor's Note
- I. Mysticism:
- Moons and Magic
- The Magus of Oz
- The Bavarian Illuminati
- Folk Tales: A Mystical Approach
- This Guardian Demon at Midday: The Da Vinci Code
- II. Literature and the Arts
- Kenneth Anger: An Interview
- J.G. Ballard: An Appreciation
- The Logos Arrives in Berkeley: Philip K. Dick
- Do Computers Dream of Silicon Sheep? Philip K. Dick
- The History of Sci-Fi Pulps
- The Hidden Geometries of History: Thomas Pynchon
- The Unknown Topographies of Time: Thomas Pynchon
- Robert Anton Wilson: A Personal Meditation
- Unleash the Word Horde: William S. Burroughs
- The Secret Place: The Cave of the Three Brothers
- James Joyce: Finnegans Wake and the Book of the Dead
- Almost Gone: The Ruins of Bethlehem Steel
- David Bowie Live: Before and After Eno
- Charlie Chaplin: The Making of A Woman of Paris
- III. Reviews
- The Terminal Beach by J.G. Ballard
- The Birth of Graffiti by Jon Naar
- The Mythos of V for Vendetta
- Strange Angel by George Pendle
- Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
- Our Gods Wear Spandex by Christopher Knowles
- The Secrets of Dr. Taverner by Dion Fortune
- Between the Gates by Mark Stavish
- IV. Historical Women and True Crime
- The Reverend and the Mill Girl: Sarah Cornell
- A Murder in Gotham: Helen Jewett
- The Strange Case of Typhoid Mary
- Hetty Green: Wall Street Woman
- Carrie Nation: Another American Hatchet Woman
- Helen Duncan: The Blitz Watch
- About the Author
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