Prophecy in Naked Lunch

9 years ago

Naked Lunch is the book that catapulted William S. Burroughs from a minor author and figure of interest in the…

Review: Bop Apocalypse

9 years ago

Martin Torgoff’s Bop Apocalypse (not to be confused with the similarly titled The Bop Apocalypse, by John Lardas) attempts to…

Famous Writers Who Didn’t Like Kerouac

9 years ago

Jack Kerouac was a huge inspiration for Bob Dylan, the winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature, and a…

Review: Tales of Ordinary Sadness

9 years ago

Tales of Ordinary Sadness is a collection of fifteen short stories by Neil Randall, and its title is a reference…

Turtle Island: An Eco-Critique of Capitalism

9 years ago

In the modern era the sustainability of both our daily lives and global systems has become an increasingly important issue.…

William S. Burroughs’ Chinese Covers

10 years ago

In the past few weeks we've brought you book covers from the Chinese translations of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.…

Allen Ginsberg’s Chinese Translations

10 years ago

Last week, I updated an old post on Chinese translations of Jack Kerouac's novels. The article proved surprisingly popular, in…

New Allen Ginsberg Readings on YouTube

10 years ago

I heard recently that a friend of a friend, owner of a cassette recording of Allen Ginsberg reading from 1964,…

Chinese Kerouac Covers

10 years ago

Jack Kerouac's novels, particularly On the Road, are popular all around the world. When Allen Ginsberg arrived in China in…

Ginsberg and the Machinery of Capitalism: A Political Reading of Howl

10 years ago

In this essay, I use a Marxist lens to examine Allen Ginsberg’s controversial and groundbreaking 1956 poem, Howl. Ginsberg, I…

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