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Showing posts with label Beat Generation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beat Generation. Show all posts
Monday, March 31, 2014

Super Copy Of William Burroughs' Scarce Digit Junkie $15,000 At New York Antiquarian Book Fair

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by Stephen J. Gertz A copy of the incredibly scarce first U.K. edition of William S. Burroughs' Junkie , published in London by Di...
Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Cleaning Up With William S. Burroughs And Mata Hari's Knickers

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by Alastair Johnston Mata Hari (nee M'greet MacLeod, 1876-1915), caught with her pants down, as usual      Martin Stone has a k...
Friday, July 26, 2013

William S. Burroughs Exposes Scientology To Allen Ginsberg

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by Stephen J. Gertz Title page. Serendipity struck Scientology when, simultaneous to actress Leah Remini's recent and very publi...
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

A Beatnik from the Middle Ages

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by Alastair Johnston Notes from the Cosmic Typewriter The Life & Work of Dom Sylvester Houédard, edited by Nicole Simpson (n.p.,...
Monday, July 1, 2013

Alexander Trocchi Goes On The Lam

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by Stephen J. Gertz   "The most brilliant man I've ever met” (Allen Ginsberg). A "unique and pivotal figure in the literary...
Monday, April 8, 2013

Historic Collection Of Kerouac Letters Offered At $1,250,000

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by Stephen J. Gertz From "Old Sam Kerouac." "To think that all that crazy stuff I’ve written 
since 1951 in...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Allen Ginsberg On Neal Cassady's Ashes

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by Stephen J. Gertz On January 17, 1971, a college student in Pennsylvania wrote a letter seeking assistance from Beat poet Allen Gins...
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Friday, September 28, 2012

Jack Kerouac, Painter

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by Stephen J. Gertz An original, untitled drawing of Jesus' crucifixion executed in colored crayons by Beat novelist Jack Kerouac ...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

When Ginsberg & Burroughs Met Samuel Beckett

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by Stephen J. Gertz "Vodka with Bill and lisping boyish wrinkled Samuel Beckett   - he sang Joyce lyrics he heard from Joyce's...
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