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Jack Kerouac the last time he visited my apartment 704 East 5th Street N.Y.C., he looked by then like his late father, red-faced corpulent W.C. Fields shuddering with mortal horror.
How did we get here, angels?
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Allen Ginsberg Photography Exhibit Shows Hidden Side Of Legendary Beat Poet (Photos)
Ginsberg didn't just see the best minds of his generation "destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix." He also took their pictures. 79 of those photographs--many of which 5/23/13 from The Huffington Post Read more »
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Catching up on our rock reading: The Beats and Rock Culture
Simon Warner. The goal is a noble one: to explore the historical intersection between poets and novelists Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and the rest of the Beat gang of the ’40s and ’50s and the rockers of the ’60s and later eras, as well from WBEZ Chicago Public Media Read more »
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Book News: Celestial Homework, Jung on Mars
Ginsberg’s “Celestial Homework” for his class on beat poetry at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. A 1957 letter from Carl Jung to The New Republic, regarding U.F.O.s, is on sale at the Swann Auction Galleries. To get more of The New Yorker's from The New Yorker Read more »
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James Franco builds a bookish filmography
to look like a book shelf — and a very respectable one, at that. The 35-year-old American has already played poets Allen Ginsberg ("Howl") and Hart Crane ("The Broken Tower"). He recently finished directing an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's "Child of God" from The Oakland Press Read more »
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Addresses the Specter at the Feast Head-On
the volumes of Edgar Allan Poe and Allen Ginsberg that inspire Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's dark lyrical oeuvre, Robert Levon Been's music has often dealt directly with death. So it's only natural that the band's latest album, Specter at the Feast, fearlessly from Phoenix New Times Read more »
