Herbert Huncke – Times Square Superstar
by Spencer Kansa. I first met Herbert Huncke in the Spring of 1992, during a layover in New...
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Do you burrow like William Seward Burroughs?
Groundhog, do you burrow like William Seward Burroughs? In a windowless bunker at 222 Bowery?...
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Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face: Favorite Saint of Gabrielle Ange L’Evesque Kerouac
Thérèse Martin (1873-1897) was four years old when her mother died. She entered the Carmelite...
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Jack Kerouac Shipped Out from Perth Amboy
In Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958 by Jack Kerouac and Joyce Johnson,...
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Down These Mean Streets: Raymond Chandler’s L.A.
by Chris Dickerson Certain cities belong to a few writers. They may not own the towns...
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Brother-Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation
We recently passed a watershed moment in modern American literature, as November, 2012, marked...
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The Voice is All: Joyce Johnson Talks about Her Latest Book
Joyce Johnson’s role in Beat history is too often viewed simply as that of Jack Kerouac’s...
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