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Leo Writes

Posted by GK Stritch | Apr 27, 2014 | Essays

Leo is known as a bigot but, as Jack Kerouac writes in the last pages of The Haunted Life i, when...

1959 was an important year in Beat Generation history. It was the year that William S. Burroughs...

Posted by Daryl Marc Clifford | Feb 17, 2014 | Essays

In 1957 Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky were in the midst of the obscenity trials in the US...

Posted by GK Stritch | Feb 12, 2014 | Essays

The summer, the fall, and the winter of discontent, shovel after shovel of snow that turns to...

Posted by GK Stritch | Jan 24, 2014 | Essays

The best dream I ever had brought me joy. (My best friend of more than twenty years died. That’s...

by Chris Dickerson Charles Bukowski never considered himself part of the Beat Generation;...

Posted by GK Stritch | Nov 30, 2013 | Essays

The things I do in pursuit of the true Jack Kerouac . . . it’s always daunting driving into New...

By Cabell McClean and Matthew Levi Stevens Cabell McLean was born in 1952, a descendant of the...