At Issue Project Room on Monday night, Steve Buscemi read passages from William Burroughs’
"Queer." It’s a novel he’s been trying to make into a movie of for years, he said.

Incredible. Funny. Hysterical, really. Crazy. Wild.

Buscemi told a funny story about visiting William Burroughs in Lawrence, Kansas. Burroughs showed him his collection of guns, which made Buscemi a little nervous. "They’re not loaded,’" said Burroughs, who years before had accidentally shot and killed his wife Joan.

Anne Waldman and Bob Holman, legends of beat poetry, also read poetry by Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Diane DiPrima, and others.

Singing, yelling, scatting, acting, emoting with language, they were both AMAZING accompanied by a sax player and a pianist.

A GREAT night at a former storage silo on the banks of the Gowanus Canal. A benefit for Issue Project Room.

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