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Here To Go & Back Again: The Lives & Arts of Brion Gysin

Posted by Matthew Levi Stevens | Feb 26, 2016 | Essays

If Brion Gysin had not existed, it probably would have been necessary to invent him, as the saying...

1959 was an important year in Beat Generation history. It was the year that William S. Burroughs...

Posted by Daryl Marc Clifford | Feb 17, 2014 | Essays

In 1957 Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky were in the midst of the obscenity trials in the US...

When I get old I want to be Blue haired Madame G. K. Rachou La Patronne de la Bohème Latin Quarter...

Posted by GK Stritch | Oct 30, 2013 | Essays

For literary types and students of Beat history who intend to invest a few cool million in real...