Burn Collector is a perzine written and published by Berlin-based writer and musician Al Burian. The zine, currently at issue 16 as of May 2012, contains stories from his childhood, his life after college, and his countless misadventures traveling across the country and abroad. Al Burian began distributing the zine in the mid-nineties in the DIY punk scene. The first 9 issues were collectively republished as a book (also titled Burn Collector) in March 2000, and later republished by PM Press in 2011. Issues 10-13 were compiled in a book titled Natural Disasters. Issue 14 was published as a small paperback book, whereas issue 15 returned to a simpler, self-photocopied look; both issues were published by Microcosm Publishing.
Famous quotes containing the words burn and/or collector:
“The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism—victimless collecting, as it were ... in a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)