Remembering Michael
by Charles S. Goldman Michael McClure’s collection of short plays – Charles...
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Category: Memoirs, Fiction & Poetry
Allen Ginsberg Changed My Life
I don’t know where it was that I first read Allen Ginsberg, but strangely enough, I wanted to...
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Daddy’s Girl
Gregory Corso loved Jack Kerouac and Jack loved Joan Haverty, his second wife, loved her at least...
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Tyrannus Trump
For my birthday twin, Lawrence Ferlinghetti—I treasure the copy of your Tyrannus Nix? that you...
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Who Owns the Dropper Owns the Fix: Out to Lunch with William Burroughs
It was summer 91, I think, when sharing a joint on a brick fire escape after a night of...
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Remembering Jay DeFeo
I hopped the BART train for the short ride under the bay from Fremont to San Francisco. It was...
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My Favorite Playmate: A Daughter’s Loving Tribute to Neal Cassady
“He looks so old!” was my first thought as the hospital elevator doors parted, revealing my dad. ...
Read MoreLonesome Thanksgiving
from: Our Year in Downtown Red Yesterday’s sunshine and spectacular seventy degrees are replaced...
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“Francis Thompson (!)” i “My mangled youth lies dead beneath the heap. My days have crackled and...
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“I love St. Francis of Assisi as well as anybody in the world.” Desolation Angels Once a sybarite...
Read MoreThe Kid from Red Bank
“Count Basie’s swing arrangements are not blaring, but they contain more drive, more power, and...
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