patti smith

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Tribute

On October 2nd, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and his Beat bookstore and publisher, City Lights, will receive Litquake's 2010 Barbary Award at…

15 years ago

William Burroughs – Heavy Metal Guru

by Spencer Kansa. ''Tell him I've been reading him and I believe every word he says.'' Bob Dylan to Allen…

15 years ago

Patti Smith and the Beats

“A hipster goes into a diner. ‘What kind of pie do you have?’ he asks. The waitress says, ‘The pie…

15 years ago

“It was electric”: A conversation with Michael Sharp

By Noel Dávila On Ginsberg's anger & kindness, Kerouac's “homo viator”, Burroughs' excremental prose and a fateful evening 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

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