“It was electric”: A conversation with Michael Sharp
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Last Thoughts on Ginsberg
by Michael Hendrick I have not reached the point where I will pay for a ring tone on my cell. Just the words “ring,” “tone” and “cell” in the same phrase pisses me off. Once somebody bought me a vanity license plate permit as a...
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by James D. Irwin It’s about ten past four on a Sunday afternoon. I feel like I’ve been beaten up;...
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by Ben Simon, My favorite of Bob Dylan’s legendary Basement Tape recordings is probably the most...
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A farewell to a key post-Beat, whose creative life stretched from Warhol’s Factory to Cobain’s...
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A list of Hunter S. Thompson’s favourite music
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Searching for silence in Romania Winter in the Eastern Bloc, it’s about 9pm, the night sky outside...
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