The Fall of America Journals 1965-1971: a Meta-Review
Plymell and his friends inventing the Wichita Vortex contribute to a tradition stretching back…to...
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The 5 Best Books About William S. Burroughs
Last week, I reviewed a new book about William S. Burroughs that focused on the author’s time in...
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New Books on Hunter Thompson and William Burroughs
The Hell’s Angels Letters Last year, I had the pleasure of reading Margaret Ann Harrell’s Keep...
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Review: The Fall of America Journals
The Fall of America Journals is the third of a three-book series edited by Michael Schumacher and...
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A Shoe that Fits the Mind – Ginsberg’s South American Journals
In 1960, Allen Ginsberg accepted an invitation to attend a poetry conference in Chile. The...
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Conversations with Allen Ginsberg
In his recent book, Straight Around Allen, Bob Rosenthal begins a chapter with this statement:...
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Cutting Up the Century: A Review
Ever since the hundredth anniversary of William S. Burroughs’ birth in 2014, there has been a glut...
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Review: On Valencia Street
Jack Micheline died twenty-one years ago, but last week I received a copy of his new book, On...
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Enter the Freak Kingdom
Hunter S. Thompson was no Beat writer but as an important figure in 20th century countercultural...
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The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo: A Review
Like many people, the limited knowledge that I had of Oscar Zeta Acosta came to me through the...
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Beyond Jazz: Kerouac and Music
The links between the Beat Generation and music seem obvious, and many of them have been pretty...
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Women Writers of the Beat Era: A Review
In Women Writers of the Beat Era: Autobiography and Intertextuality, Mary Paniccia Carden argues...
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