A Difficult Subject
Review of the BS Johnson event at the Manchester Literary festival, "The Mind Has Fuses": BS Johnson, Saturday 22nd October, 6pm, International Anthony Burgess Foundation. By Nick Garrard.
View ArticleComposition No 1 by Marc Saporta
This is a book review by Jonathan Coe from today's Guardian (1-Nov-2011). It's a new edition of a book originally published in 1962 which heavily influenced B.S. Johnson in his approach to The...
View ArticleB.S. Johnson Play Recovered
The BFI's Missing Believed Wiped Programme on 2 December will feature a play by BSJ. Not Counting the Savages was a BBC Thirty Minute Theatre production from 1972 directed by Mike Newell. See BFI...
View ArticleThe 10 most difficult books to finish?
Although it's always gratifying to see BSJ given publicity in the national media, it was puzzling to see what many regard as his greatest work, The Unfortunates, included in the Observer's recent "10...
View ArticleWebsite Update
We are currently in the process of migrating the website content from the old legacy platform to blogger/google documents. This will make it much easier and quicker to update and to add new content....
View ArticleB.S. Johnson | BFI | British Film Institute
Full listing of all BSJ's film work from the BFI website. http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b9fa7348d
View ArticleB S Johnson: His Life and Legacy
B S Johnson: His Life and LegacyTo celebrate the 80th anniversary of the birth of B S Johnson and the publication of a new anthology of his prose writing, a panel discuss the life and legacy of...
View ArticleTransatlantic Review: Jack Clemo
Received this enquiry by email - Good afternoon. I'm writing about the poet Jack Clemo, whom Johnson published in the Transatlantic Review a few times. It's probably a long shot, but I wondered whether...
View ArticleB.S. Johnson's 80th Birthday
To celebrate what would have been his 80th birthday, in February 2013, Picador are planning new editions of many of his works, as well as a new anthology of plays and short stories, including some...
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amongst those left: the british experimental novel 1940-1980
A new publication by Francis Booth which includes an extended chapter on B.S Johnson"This monumental and comprehensive survey charts for the first time the rise and fall of the British experimental...
View ArticleTree of Codes
A fascinating insight into Jonathan Safran Foer's "book of holes" - created by erasure from Bruno Schulz's "Street of Crocodiles" - very much in the spirit of Tom Phillips' A Humument
View ArticleWhy You Should Read B.S. Johnson
http://www.picador.com/Blogs/2013/2/Why-You-Should-Read-B-S-Johnson
View ArticleBSJ: The B.S. Johnson Journal
BSJ is a new peer-reviewed journal aimed at promoting the work of B.S. Johnson through academic criticism, essays, interviews, review and creative work. Affiliated with The B.S. Johnson Society, the...
View ArticleReading B.S. Johnson
From David Hebblethwaite's blog about books https://davidhblog.wordpress.com/2013/02/24/reading-b-s-johnson/
View ArticleB S Johnson: 'Britain's one-man literary avant-garde
Forty years after his suicide, the radical work of British novelist B S Johnson retains its power to unsettle and entertain in equal measure, argues Tim Martin - from the Daily Telegraph...
View ArticleReview of Street Children
"In 1963, Julia Trevelyan Oman beginning making a name for herself as a set designer for BBC television, but was finding the job rather uninteresting. Armed with a camera she took to the streets of...
View ArticleThe Poet Holds His Future In His Hand by Aidan John Moffat
The Scottish musician and Arab Strap singer chose to commemorate the experimental novelist and poet by posting a spoken word recording of one of Johnson’s poems, ‘The Poet Holds His Future In His Hand’...
View ArticleB.S. Johnson In His Own Words
Lecture for The Rest is Noise Festival at the Southbank Centre, London, 2013https://soundcloud.com/sjfowler/bs-johnson-in-his-own-words
View ArticleB.S. Johnson Society YouTube Channel
The B.S. Johnson Society now have a YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/bsjohnsonsociety
View ArticleThe Unfortunate: B.S. Johnson at 80
Interesting overview of the life and works of BSJ, by Neil Stewart from CIVILIAN, online style and culture mag: http://www.civilianglobal.com/arts/the-unfortunate-b-s-johnson-at-80/
View ArticleAlan Burns Obituary
Alan Burns was a contemporary of BSJ, and a member of the circle of British experimental writers in the 1960's - including BSJ, Eva Figes, Ann Quinn and Stefan...
View ArticleReview of The Unfortunates: Chicago Review, 2009
http://hum.uchicago.edu/orgs/review/55-3_Bench.pdf
View ArticlePlagiarism and B.S. Johnson
Piece from "Quote Unquote", described as "essentially a literary gossip column" - on BSJ and his influence on a couple of literary plagiarists...
View ArticlePhilip Tew: The Review of Contemporary Fiction
An extensive biography and critique by Philip Tew (Director of the B.S. Johnson Society) - originally published in the Review of Contemporary Fiction in 2002....
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