allen ginsberg

James Franco on Allen Ginsberg

James Franco has an essay in the new Vanity Fair about what it's like to play Allen Ginsberg in the…

15 years ago

People who died: Jim Carroll’s last diary entry

A farewell to a key post-Beat, whose creative life stretched from Warhol’s Factory to Cobain’s Seattle, from St. Mark’s Poetry…

16 years ago

The Beat Generation and Korea

Since coming to Korea I haven’t really heard much about the Beat Generation. It’s hardly surprising, of course. The Beats…

16 years ago

A Postcard from Ginsberg

In January 1976, Columbia Records released Desire, the Bob Dylan LP, replete with liner notes by Allen Ginsberg. I was…

16 years ago

The End of the Road

R. R. Reno The road dominates the American imagination, from the Oregon Trail to Route 66. That strange, in-between time…

16 years ago

In Tangier

by Steven O'Sullivan "A true document of human desperation." -Playwright Tennessee Williams on Mohamed Choukri's autobiographical novel about life in…

16 years ago

The Beat Generation and Travel

A short except from Issue Six.

16 years ago

The Beat Generation and Travel

More so than any other literary movement, the Beats have influenced the world of travel and have helped shape our…

16 years ago

Walking With the Barefoot Beat: Alene Lee

by Christina Diamente No girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering And so beautifully her soul…

16 years ago

Naked Lunch at Fifty

“‘Disgusting,’ they said . . . ‘Pornographic’ . . . ‘Un-American trash’ . . . ‘Unpublishable’ . . . Well,…

16 years ago

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