Coming in 2021, ‘Burroughs & Scotland: Dethroning the Ancients/The Commitment of Exile‘ – an unexplored chapter in the life William S.Burroughs. Researched by award-winning, multi-translated writer and editor Chris Kelso (and fully-illustrated by Shane Swank), Burroughs & Scotland discusses the gentleman junky’s early impact on the Scottish literary landscape, his turbulent relationship with Alexander Trocchi, and his dalliance with the sinister Edinburgh Org branch of Scientology – plus many more stories of Caledonian mischief and anarchy.
‘Kelso, in writing Burroughs & Scotland, reanimates Burroughs’ corpse, reincarnates Burroughs in the corps of contemporary Scottish writers and contributes new and pertinent knowledge to the Burroughs corpus.’ – Steve Finbow, author of Grave Desire
‘Casting the Circle by Chris Kelso does not merely describe a cultural phenomenon; it invokes a mode of perception. Within its pages, football—that global language seemingly exhausted by commercialisation—reappears in its most primal form: ritual, incantation, bodies and voices gathered around a shared mystery. Chris Kelso is not writing about the sport itself, but about what surrounds it: an archaic energy that endures at the margins, where the logic of capital has not yet fully corrupted experience.’- Dr Carles Viñas, author of St Pauli