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RealityStudio publishes new material through its "What's New" section, and recent updates cluster around three areas: archival politics and scholarly research, previously unseen photography, and a new series on the Ed Sanders Papers at Princeton University. If you follow William S. Burroughs, the 1960s underground press, or the politics of literary archives, the What's New page is where the site announces its latest additions. The site describes itself as "the web's leading resource dedicated to William S. Burroughs and the underground press in the 1960s."
Recent Updates on the What's New Page
Archival Politics and Scholarly Research
One recent item is S.E. Gontarski's inside account of the William S. Burroughs materials held at Florida State University. According to the site's summary, Gontarski examines how "modern archival administration increasingly privileges ownership, branding, and custodial control over scholarly activation, interpretive collaboration, and open research ecosystems." The piece is titled "Archival Politics, Institutional Bureaucracy: The Neutralization of Scholarly Research."
This is the kind of content that goes beyond bibliography: it treats the archive itself — who controls it, how it is branded, what access researchers actually get — as a subject worth writing about.
Previously Unseen Photography
Keaton Studebaker contributed David Gahr's previously unseen photographs of the 1965 opening of Peace Eye Book Store. Peace Eye was Ed Sanders' bookstore on Manhattan's Lower East Side and a hub of the 1960s mimeograph and small-press scene, so the images document both a specific event and the milieu around it.
A New Series: Mapping the Secret Location
The site launched a new section, "Mapping the Secret Location: Postings on the Ed Sanders Archive at Princeton University," dedicated to exploring the Ed Sanders Papers at Princeton. The first posts are by Jed Birmingham and Keaton Studebaker. This is an ongoing series rather than a one-off article, so new installments are likely to appear under the same heading.
Community News
The What's New page also carries community news. It notes that James Grauerholz, who managed Burroughs' career for more than 50 years and oversaw his estate, passed away on January 1, 2026, and points readers to an obituary by Oliver Harris on Substack and a post by the Allen Ginsberg Estate on Instagram.
How This Fits the Rest of the Site
What's New is the announcement layer; the underlying material lives in permanent sections:
| Section | What it holds |
|---|---|
| Bibliographic Bunker | Posts by Jed Birmingham |
| Mapping the Secret Location | The Ed Sanders / Princeton series |
| Texts by William S. Burroughs | Primary texts |
| Interviews, Biography, Scholarship, Criticism | Secondary and reference material |
| Bibliography | Compiled by Eric Shoaf |
| Archives | Runs of little magazines and presses, including Evergreen Review, Floating Bear, Fuck You Press, Kulchur, My Own Mag, Nova Broadcast, and others |
| Authors | Burroughs, Jed Birmingham, Oliver Harris, Ian MacFadyen, and the RealityStudio Editor |
| Publications | Book-length works such as Retaking the Universe, The Road to Interzone, and Ian MacFadyen's The Mouth Inside: The Voices of Naked Lunch |
So a typical new post either announces a fresh piece of writing (an essay, a photo feature, a series installment) or points to something added elsewhere on the site.
What to Expect If You Check Back
- Scholarly essays and archival commentary — often with a critical angle on how institutions manage literary papers.
- Visual and documentary material — photographs, scans, and ephemera from the 1960s underground press, sometimes published for the first time.
- Serialized research — multi-part projects like the Ed Sanders / Princeton series, which build up over time.
- Community notices — deaths, events, and news about people connected to Burroughs and the underground press.
If your interest is primary texts, the Texts and Archives sections are the place to browse; if you want to know what has just been added, start at What's New.