“It was electric”: A conversation with Michael Sharp
By Noel DávilaOn Ginsberg’s anger & kindness, Kerouac’s “homo viator”, Burroughs’ excremental prose and a fateful evening in the American Midwest.“What is it you want to talk about, in case I have...
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by Spencer Kansa. ”Tell him I’ve been reading him and I believe every word he says.”Bob Dylan to Allen Ginsberg on William Burroughs in 1965. I remember sitting across from William Burroughs at the...
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Here are a few links you might be interested in:Allen Ginsberg’s fourteen steps for revising poetryAllen Ginsberg’s poetic practicumDavid S. Wills at Hunter S. Thompson’s houseOn William S. Burroughs’...
View ArticleAllen Ginsberg at Nirvana’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction
A couple of days ago, Michael Stipe took the stage to introduce a night of celebrations of the life of Kurt Cobain and the music of his band, which arguably was a 1990s updated upon the Beat...
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