The Beat Generation, it seems, dominated American culture between two major wars. The history books will tell you that they…
In 1957 Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky were in the midst of the obscenity trials in the US surrounding the…
“There are many mansions in the house of poetry,” i writes Louis “Paterson’s principal poet” ii to Allen, many times.…
Yesterday, on 9th January, Amiri Baraka passed away at the age of 79. He was an influential and highly controversial…
For “electronic laser TV generations that don’t read Dostoyevsky” quoth Allen Ginsberg Fyodor, Fedor, Feodor Dostoevski, Dostoievsky, Dostoevskii, Dostoevsky, Dostoyevsky…
A new literary, art and music festival celebrating the Beat Generation is being launched in Ipswich next month. The month-long…
August, 1968, Chicago. It was the Summer of long hair, and long hot nights. Small wonder America would soon be…
For literary types and students of Beat history who intend to invest a few cool million in real estate at…
William S. Burroughs knew his William Shakespeare and referenced him in conversations in everyday life throughout his life. Young Billy…
Howls of 9/11 attacks Moloch skyscrapers stood looming monstrously large Crowning the shining Battery of Manhattan Two planes crashed south…
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