Here To Go & Back Again: The Lives & Arts of Brion Gysin
If Brion Gysin had not existed, it probably would have been necessary to invent him, as the saying...
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Pulling Our Daisy: The Illusion of Spontaneity
1959 was an important year in Beat Generation history. It was the year that William S. Burroughs...
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Exiled on Beat Street
In 1957 Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky were in the midst of the obscenity trials in the US...
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I Want to Be Blue Haired Madame G. K. Rachou
When I get old I want to be Blue haired Madame G. K. Rachou La Patronne de la Bohème Latin Quarter...
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Chelsea’s Ghosts Revisited
For literary types and students of Beat history who intend to invest a few cool million in real...
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The Beat Hotel…World Premiere Dec. 8 at Cinematheque, Copenhagen
Beat Hotel Trailer 8th December 2011 Copenhagen The world premiere of Alan Govenar’s 2011...
Read MoreLast Thoughts on Ginsberg
by Michael Hendrick I have not reached the point where I will pay for a ring tone on my cell. Just the words “ring,” “tone” and “cell” in the same phrase pisses me off. Once somebody bought me a vanity license plate permit as a...
Read MoreLast Thoughts on Ginsberg and Dylan
by Ben Simon, My favorite of Bob Dylan’s legendary Basement Tape recordings is probably the most...
Read MoreIn Tangier
by Steven O’Sullivan “A true document of human desperation.” -Playwright Tennessee Williams on Mohamed Choukri’s autobiographical novel about life in Tangier, 1973. The release of Choukri’s For...
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The Beat Generation and Travel
More so than any other literary movement, the Beats have influenced the world of travel and have...
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The Life of Gregory Corso
The life of Gregory Corso
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