The Strangest One of All
Text by Barry Gifford.
No. 8 in the synaesthesia press chapbook series. Published Summer 1998. The piece originally appeared in Speak Magazine, Fall of 1997.
Chapbook. 5 1/2″ × 8 1/2″ (13.9 × 21.6 cm). Cover illustration by Billy Childish. Designed by Johnny Brewton. Published by the synaesthesia press.
Edition of 150 numbered copies, of which the first 50 were signed by Barry Gifford. Twenty-six special lettered copies were additionally signed by both Barry Gifford and Billy Childish and issued with two original woodcut illustrations not included in the standard edition.
The lettered issue was housed in a handmade envelope containing the chapbook and supplementary prints. Design by Johnny Brewton. The supplementary prints are two additional Billy Childish woodcut illustrations not present in the standard edition.
Originally published in Speak magazine and issued here in its first separate publication. The short, non-fiction narrative records novelist Barry Gifford’s visit to William S. Burroughs’s legendary residence known as “The Bunker,” and captures a conversation between Gifford, his son, former baseball player Jimbo Carothers, and Burroughs.
