...welcome, my friends, to the BHM Literary Thread, where we share and discuss books which feature...BHM! Wild concept, eh? In my never-ending quest to build some kind of "BHM and FFA do other things in life" sort of thing here in BHM-land I am endeavouring to raise interest in books!
OK, then I am starting it off with a bona-fide classic of the underground. Somehere between the Beatniks and Hippies, this book emerged as a Surrealist and hypnagogic classic. Stephen Schneck's "The Nightclerk" is set in San Francisco at a fictional hotel called The Travelers...at the end of Market Street,on the Embarcadero. The nightclerk is a 637 pound man named J. Spenser Blight (his weight keeps fluctuating in a very surreal manner!), who runs the three-ring circus of what is obviously a very special hotel catering to very special clients! There is a strong element of SM/BD which was extremely controversial during the 60's when this strange book emerged. "The Nightclerk" begins in the middle of a sentence on page 9 and just roars through the subconscious from that point on...it is still available here and there...I got my precious copy on Amazon.
I am thinking someone might want to bring up Victor Buono's "It could be Verse" book at some point!?
OK, then I am starting it off with a bona-fide classic of the underground. Somehere between the Beatniks and Hippies, this book emerged as a Surrealist and hypnagogic classic. Stephen Schneck's "The Nightclerk" is set in San Francisco at a fictional hotel called The Travelers...at the end of Market Street,on the Embarcadero. The nightclerk is a 637 pound man named J. Spenser Blight (his weight keeps fluctuating in a very surreal manner!), who runs the three-ring circus of what is obviously a very special hotel catering to very special clients! There is a strong element of SM/BD which was extremely controversial during the 60's when this strange book emerged. "The Nightclerk" begins in the middle of a sentence on page 9 and just roars through the subconscious from that point on...it is still available here and there...I got my precious copy on Amazon.
I am thinking someone might want to bring up Victor Buono's "It could be Verse" book at some point!?
