The Nova Convention
Double LP
1979

Side One
A1 - Terry Southern: Vignette of Idealistic Life in South Texas
A2 - William S. Burroughs: Keynote commentary & Roosevelt After Inauguration
A3 - John Giorno: Eating The Sky
A4 - Patti Smith: Poem For Jim Morrison & Bumblebee

Side Two
B1 - William S. Burroughs: Benway
B2 - Philip Glass: Building, excerpt from Einstein On The Beach by Robert Wilson & Philip Glass
B3 - Brion Gysin: Kick That Habit, Junk Is No Good Baby, Somebody Special & Blue Baboon
B4 - Frank Zappa: The Talking Asshole
B5 - William S. Burroughs: From The Gay Gun: "This Is Kim Carson," "Just Like The Collapse Of Any Currency," & "The Whole Tamale"

Side Three
C1 - William S. Burroughs: What The Nova Convention Is About
C2 - Ed Sanders: Hymn To Aphrodite from Sappho
C3 - John Cage: Writing For The Second Time Through Finnegans Wake
C4 - Anne Waldman: Plutonium Ode & Skin Meat Bones

Side Four
D1 - Laurie Anderson & Julia Heyward: Song from America On The Move
D2 - Allen Ginsberg & Peter Orlovsky: Punk Rock, Old Pond; Feeding Them Raspberries To Grow, & Nurses Song
D3 - William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Timothy Leary, Les Levine & Robert Anton Wilson: Conversations

Recorded at Entermedia Theater, New York, December 1 & 2, 1978