Mettray [Second Series], Issue 9, September 2016

 

This issue contains a wealth of reproduced primary material within its covers, which depicts scenes from Brion Gysin's 9 rue Gît-le-Cœur "Beat Hotel" apartment.

This issue contains seven reproduced pages from a Brion Gysin sketchbook.

It additionally contains many items relevant to William S. Burroughs, including correspondence, scrapbook pages, and an early photgraph.

All English texts are afforded French translations.

This copy was acquired as a gift from the Estate of William S. Burroughs during a visit in 2026.

Selected Contents: 

• biographies
• Didier Morin: editorial
• Mortimer Burroughs: 1924 photograph of William S. Burroughs
• William S. Burroughs:
• [attributed] cover photos from Brion Gysin's room at 9 rue Gît-le-Cœur, the "Beat Hotel"
• undated letter to Allen Ginsberg
• undated letter to Jack Kerouac
• pages from Scrapbook 3
• Laura Lee Burroughs: 1924 postcard to Otto Belue
• Otto Belue: a letter to William S. Burroughs, 7 January 1965
• Jack Kerouac: a postcard to William S. Burroughs, 15 October 1962
• Allen Ginsberg: 
• a postcard to William S. Burroughs, 29 March 1965
• a letter to William S. Burroughs, 4 September 1964
• a letter to William S. Burroughs, 10 September 1964
• Brion Gysin: seven pages from a 1975 sketchbook
• Marcelin Pleynet: "Paris New-York" (prose)
• Julia Kristeva: "La voie lactée de Jackson Pollock" (essay)
• Didier Morin and Ingrid Caven: "Rainer Werner Fassbinder" (interview)
• Edith et Pierre Cottrell: interview
• Philippe Grandrieux: "Journal de tournage de Malgré la nuit qui sort en France le 6 juillet 2016"  (journal)
• Corinne Thévenon: 
• photograph of Roxane Mesquida
• photographs of Arianne Labed and Kristian Marr
• Didier Morin and Gérard Arseguel: interview
• Didier Morin and Onuma Nemon: interview
• Bernard Plossu: photo portfolio

Publishing Information: 

• Director and Editor-in-Chief: Didier Morin
• Assistant Editor: Donia Lakhdar
• Layout: Cécile Braneyre