Can I Come In and Talk About These and Other Ideas?
13 Proposals from B.S. Johnson
Text und Töne, Autumn 2020
Throughout his acclaimed career, B.S. Johnson – ‘Britain’s one-man literary avant-garde of the 1960s’ – wrote to commissioning editors, TV producers, and literary agents with letters brimming full of ideas. Can I Come In... brings a selection of these proposals to light in a visual history of B.S. Johnson’s abandoned work.
With an Afterword from Johnson’s son Steve and a postcard reproducing the author's plan for a 'Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Johnson'.
More information at Text und Töne
13 Proposals from B.S. Johnson
Text und Töne, Autumn 2020
Throughout his acclaimed career, B.S. Johnson – ‘Britain’s one-man literary avant-garde of the 1960s’ – wrote to commissioning editors, TV producers, and literary agents with letters brimming full of ideas. Can I Come In... brings a selection of these proposals to light in a visual history of B.S. Johnson’s abandoned work.
With an Afterword from Johnson’s son Steve and a postcard reproducing the author's plan for a 'Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Johnson'.
More information at Text und Töne
