Herbert Huncke – Times Square Superstar

13 years ago

by Spencer Kansa.   I first met Herbert Huncke in the Spring of 1992, during a layover in New York,…

Ginsberg Exhibition Tomorrow

13 years ago

This summer, the Contemporary Jewish Museum is putting on an Allen Ginsberg festival. You can read more about it at: http://ginsbergfestival.com/ The…

New Beatdom Book!

13 years ago

"This is the story of how I screwed up being a lesbian." Beatdom Books' next publication is the wonderful novel,…

Do you burrow like William Seward Burroughs?

13 years ago

Groundhog, do you burrow like William Seward Burroughs? In a windowless bunker at 222 Bowery? (back in the bad old…

Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face: Favorite Saint of Gabrielle Ange L’Evesque Kerouac

13 years ago

Thérèse Martin (1873-1897) was four years old when her mother died. She entered the Carmelite convent at Lisieux, France, at…

Jackie

13 years ago

Jackie-ing Jackie reading Jack Ker-o-uac Black Jack Bouvier Parlez-vous … français? jack be nimble jack be spry jack jump over…

Jack Kerouac Shipped Out from Perth Amboy

13 years ago

In Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958 by Jack Kerouac and Joyce Johnson, Kerouac writes to…

Big Sur Trailer

13 years ago

With the success of On the Road, all eyes are now on the next adaptation of a Kerouac novel: Big…

Bill Morgan’s Walking Tour “Allen Ginsberg in the East Village”

13 years ago

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR. Many thanks to Bill Morgan, author and Allen Ginsberg bibliographer and archivist, and Grey Art Gallery,…

Down These Mean Streets: Raymond Chandler’s L.A.

13 years ago

by Chris Dickerson   Certain cities belong to a few writers. They may not own the towns exclusively, but they’ve…

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