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Peter Orlovsky, poet and partner of Allen Ginsberg, has died
Jacket CopyPeter Orlovsky, longtime partner of Allen Ginsberg and a poet in his own right, died May 30 in Vermont of lung cancer. He was 76. Orlovsky met Ginsberg in San Francisco in 1954, before Ginsberg wrote his seminal poem, "Howl."...... -
Bill Murray's poetry parade
Jacket CopyOn June 14, the Poets House in New York hosts its annual benefit poetry walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. As participants cross the bridge, they'll be treated to readings by work by Langston Hughes, Marianne Moore, Brooklyn poet Walt Whitman...... -
A few casting suggestions in advance of the upcoming Jerry Garcia biopic
Pop & HissHopefully, it will be more "American Beauty," than "Hell in a Bucket" but according to an article in today's Variety, a biopic on Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia appears to be heading down the golden road to unlimited devotion. After...... -
Tuli Kupferberg dies at 86; founding member of the underground band the Fugs
Tuli Kupferberg, a founding member of the underground left-wing 1960s band the Fugs as well as a poet, political cartoonist and lifelong peace activist, died Monday in New York. He was 86.
Kupferberg's health had been declining since he suffered two...Tags: Greenwich Village, Music Industry, New York City, YouTube, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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Jack and Allen, in their own words
Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg
The Letters
Edited by Bill Morgan and David Stanford
Viking: 528 pp., $35
"Howl" (1956) and "On the Road" (1957), two works that helped define a time, sprang from two wildly fired, independent imaginations. Few would...Tags: Jack Kerouac, Los Angeles Times, Stanford University, Columbia University, Ken Kesey
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20 classic works of gay literature
Jacket CopyToday U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker struck down Proposition 8, ruling that gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry. Proposition 8 was a 2008 ballot initiative that banned gay marriage in California. Both sides had said...... -
Paperback Writers: What made Dylan roar?
The Welsh poet Dylan Thomas died in New York on Nov. 9, 1953, at age 39. Already a celebrity, Thomas was turned into a legend.
Did he die as a result of 18 double whiskies drunk neat in the White Horse Tavern?
Or was the cause half a grain of morphine...Tags: John Donne, Hospitals and Clinics, Wales, World War II (1939-1945), Poetry
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Astral Weeks: Welcome to weird America
!["My country is my family," writes Ricky Rice as he concludes his apologia pro vita sua -- a.k.a Victor LaValle's massive, heroically strange new novel, <b>"Big Machine" </b>(Spiegel & Grau: 378 pp., $25). "I like America."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-08/48530646-20103312.gif ""My country is my family,\" writes Ricky Rice as he concludes his apologia pro vita sua -- a.k.a Victor LaValle's massive, heroically strange new novel, <b>\"Big Machine\" </b>(Spiegel & Grau: 378 pp., $25). \"I like America.\"")
"My country is my family," writes Ricky Rice as he concludes his apologia pro vita sua -- a.k.a Victor LaValle's massive, heroically strange new novel, "Big Machine" (Spiegel & Grau: 378 pp., $25). "I like America."
There's something both dissonant and...Tags: Richard Brautigan, Cults and Sects, Heavy Engineering, Oakland (Alameda, California), Haruki Murakami
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Thanks, Jack Kerouac
Jacket CopyOn this day of thanks, I'd like to say thank you for an American writer I still treasure. Oh, you can complain about his romanticism, about his self-destructive alcoholism, about his inability to get beyond his initial massive success with...... -
Live review: A Night of the Beats at Disney Hall
Pop & HissBebop and beat intersect in an uneven pairing of musicians and poets. It was difficult to know what to expect going into the Night of the Beats concert at Disney Hall on Tuesday night. In this final performance in the...... -
Matt Weinstock, Dec. 17, 1959
The Daily MirrorForgotten Men As you probably read, film director, Joseph Von Sternberg has sued Fox for $1 million, charging the 1959 version of "The Blue Angel" with May Britt and Curt Jurgens was made without his consent and was inferior to his 1929 version with... -
The idiosyncratic legacy of Harry Smith
Jacket CopyAlthough his "Anthology of American Folk Music," released by Folkways in 1952, became essential to America's folk music movement of the 1960s, Harry Smith remained on the fringes of culture. Or, rather, on the avant-garde, as Rani Singh and Andrew......
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