Stewart Meyer's "The Bunker Diaries" (2025)

Scotland: Beatdom Books (book, memoir), 2025.
8.5" x 5.5" x 0.625", 237 pages, softcover, ISBN 978-1-0686980-1-9.

The Bunker Diaries by Stewart Meyer, a memoir of time spent with William S. Burroughs in New York City during the 1970s and 1980s, published in a 1st softcover edition by Beatdom Books (Scotland) in 2025. Cover photograph of Stewart Meyer and William S. Burroughs is by James Grauerholz.

This is a series of diary entries spanning from 1978 to Friday, October 14th, 1983. It is preceded by an introductory essay on 1974 and followed by "Burroughs, the Bunker, and the Bowery," an interview of Stewart Meyer by Leon Horton.

Within these pages are mentions of, aside from Burroughs, James Grauerholz, Ted Morgan, Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, Victor Bockris, Howard Brookner, Sylvère Lotringer, Brion Gysin, Andy Warhol, Jeff Goldberg, Terry Southern, Dennis Hopper, Kenneth Anger, Louis Cartwright, Herbert Huncke, Steven Lowe, Legs McNeil, Ira Jaffe, David Budd, Jackie Curtis, Jacques Stern, Gregory Corso, and others.

Contents: 

• "Introduction: 1974"
• "1978"
• "1978 [sic, 1979]":
• "Saturday, January 28th, 1979"
• "Summer 1979"
• "Wednesday, July 4th, 1979"
• "Saturday, September 1st, 1979"
• "Sunday, September 2nd, 1979"
• "Monday, September 3rd, 1979"
• "Monday, September 10th, 1979"
• "Wednesday, September 12th, 1979"
• "Thursday, September 20th, 1979"
• "Friday, September 21st, 1979"
• "[Tuesday,] September 25th, 1979"
• "Tuesday, October 2nd, 1979"
• "Thursday, October 5th, 1979"
• "Monday, November 5th, 1979"
• "Thursday, November 22nd, 1979"
• "Late 1979"
• "1980":
• "Sunday, January 13th, 1980"
• "Tuesday, January 20th, 1980"
• "February 1980"
• "February 8th, 1980"
• "February 12th, 1980"
• "Early March 1980"
• "Sunday, June 8th, 1980"
• "Friday, November 21st, 1980"
• "Wednesday, November 26th, 1980"
• "Thursday, December 18th, 1980"
• "Sunday, December 28th, 1980"
• "1981":
• "Saturday, January 3rd, 1981"
• "Sunday, January 4th, 1981"
• "Wednesday, January 7th, 1981"
• "Monday, January 13th, 1981"
• "Wednesday, January 14th, 1981"
• "Saturday, January 17th, 1981"
• "Tuesday, January 20th, 1981"
• "Thursday, January 22nd, 1981"
• "Saturday, January 24th, 1981"
• "Tuesday, January 27th, 1981"
• "Wednesday, January 28th, 1981"
• "Friday, January 30th, 1981"
• "Saturday, January 31st, 1981"
• "Tuesday, March 3rd, 1981"
• "1982":
• "May 24th, 1982"
• "June 1982"
• "Early July 1982"
• "July 4th, 1982"
• "Mid-July 1982"
• "Early August 1982"
• "1983":
• "Friday, October 14th, 1983"
• Leon Horton: "Burroughs, the Bunker, and the Bowery: An Interview with Stewart Meyer"