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A Shoe that Fits the Mind – Ginsberg’s South American Journals

Posted by David S. Wills | Dec 20, 2019 | Reviews

In 1960, Allen Ginsberg accepted an invitation to attend a poetry conference in Chile. The...

Posted by David S. Wills | Oct 25, 2019 | Reviews

In his recent book, Straight Around Allen, Bob Rosenthal begins a chapter with this statement:...

Posted by David S. Wills | Sep 5, 2019 | Reviews

Ever since the hundredth anniversary of William S. Burroughs’ birth in 2014, there has been a glut...

Posted by David S. Wills | Aug 28, 2019 | Reviews

Jack Micheline died twenty-one years ago, but last week I received a copy of his new book, On...

Posted by David S. Wills | May 27, 2019 | Reviews

Hunter S. Thompson was no Beat writer but as an important figure in 20th century countercultural...

Posted by David S. Wills | Dec 19, 2018 | Reviews

Like many people, the limited knowledge that I had of Oscar Zeta Acosta came to me through the...

Posted by David S. Wills | Dec 4, 2018 | Reviews

The links between the Beat Generation and music seem obvious, and many of them have been pretty...

Posted by David S. Wills | Nov 30, 2018 | Reviews

In Women Writers of the Beat Era: Autobiography and Intertextuality, Mary Paniccia Carden argues...