Happy Birthday, Jack
Today would’ve been Jack Kerouac’s 90th birthday. Although he’s been dead a long...
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The City Lights Bookstore: the Beatnik’s Mecca
There are few places around the globe that fully encompass all things Beat Generation in the same...
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Death Within a Chrysalis
At the turn of the 1960s, Jack Kerouac found himself in a profound state of limbo, the climax of...
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The Lady is a Humble Thing: Elise Cowen
By Karen Baddeley The Lady is a humble thing Made of death and water The fashion is to dress it...
Read MoreLawrence Ferlinghetti Tribute
On October 2nd, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and his Beat bookstore and publisher, City Lights, will receive Litquake’s 2010 Barbary Award at Herbst Theater. The celebration will be attended by Tom Waits, Patti Smith, Lenny...
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