Joe Gould’s Secret Discovered in the Afterword of Hippos
“The usual assortment of stupid characters was assembled in Minetta’s. Joe Gould was sitting at a...
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by GK Stritch | Sep 2, 2013 | Essays | 1
“The usual assortment of stupid characters was assembled in Minetta’s. Joe Gould was sitting at a...
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“In the air-cooled museum Phil spent ten minutes in front of a portrait of Jean Cocteau by...
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“We passed the Apollo theater . . . . and then we crossed the street to a penny arcade . . . . and...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Dec 3, 2011 | Discussions | 9
So Daniel Radcliffe is going to play Allen Ginsberg in a new movie, called Kill Your Darlings. The...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Jan 11, 2010 | Beatdom Content, Essays | 1
“Money is the root of all evil”For I willWriteIn my will“I regret that I was not ableTo love money more.”Jack Kerouac, 238th Chorus, Mexico City Blues Jack Kerouac died on October 21st, 1969, of cirrhosis of the liver. By the...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Jul 10, 2009 | Beatdom Content, Essays | 0
Since the fiftieth anniversary of On the Road, Kerouac has been somewhat revitalized. Despite being dead for forty years, Beat enthusiasts are still getting to read fresh material, as publishers trawl through his estate for...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Feb 8, 2009 | Beatdom Content, Essays | 1
One famous and pivotal moment in Beat history was the killing David Kammerer by Lucian Carr. It...
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