The Paris Review, Volume 9, Number 35, Fall 1965

 

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No direct Gysin contribution. William S. Burroughs contributes “The Art of Fiction XXXVI: William Burroughs, an interview”, an interview by Conrad Knickerbocker, pp.13-49, in which he discusses Brion Gysin and the Cut-Up method.

"A friend, Brion Gysin, an American poet and painter, who has lived in Europe for 30 years, was, as far as I know, the first to create cut-ups. His cut-up poem, 'Minutes to Go,' was broadcast by the BBC and later published in a pamphlet. I was in Paris in the summer of 1960; this was after the publication there of Naked Lunch. I became interested in the possibilities of this technique, and I began experimenting with myself."

Published in Paris, France by The Paris Review in Fall of 1965.