Why Did William Burroughs Shoot His Wife?
William Burroughs is largely known for three things. He was a junkie, he wrote Naked Lunch and he...
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A Sixty-Year History of The Rum Diary
Sixty years ago, on June 26th, 1960, an article with an odd title appeared in the Louisville...
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The Howling Inferno: Crying Out in Anguish to America
But all the streets are burning everywhere. The city is burning these multitudes that climb Her...
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From “Philadelphia-Sigma subversion and insurrection” Center to Kingsley Hall: exploring the Laing-Trocchi-Berke connection
It should have been one of the most enduring countercultural unions of the century: Alex Trocchi,...
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The Protests of Ginsberg and Di Prima as Marginalized Minorities
There is nothing more American than a protest, than questioning authority and rebelling in the...
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Allegories from the Cave: Burroughs and Trocchi – a Platonic Love
‘Demiurgos scowled, and with that Plato awoke. Or did he?’ Voltaire The drug experience has often...
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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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The Best and Worst Beat Book Covers
One should not judge a book by its cover, of course, but judging the cover alone is fair game (as...
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Virgules / After Cézanne
In his 1966 interview for The Paris Review, Ginsberg recounts his early preoccupation with...
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Snyder, Kerouac, and the Dharma
The worlds like an endlessfour-dimensionalGame of Go. Riprap, Gary Snyder “All these people,” said...
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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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Specificity: The Secret Brilliance of Hunter S. Thompson
In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s protagonist, Nick Carraway, describes Jay Gatsby as...
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