Alice Notley and Dorothy Day, two incredible women, share a birthday today.
For more on Alice on The Allen Ginsberg Project – see here, here, here, and here,
For more on Dorothy Day – see here
Jack Kerouac and Janis Joplin – Holly George-Warren is the author of Janis (2019) a biography of Janis Joplin, and of the forthcoming official biography of Jack Kerouac, authorized by the Estate and currently in progress. She’ll be speaking this coming Sunday at The Beat Museum in San Francisco at 7PM (PST)
also, speaking of Kerouac – The Cambridge Companion To Jack Kerouac (edited by Steven Belletto) appeared earlier this year from Cambridge University Press.. Jim Cohn reviews the book for Simon Warner’s Rock and The Beat Generation – here – and see also Warner’s interview with the author-scholar-anthologist – here
For more of Belletto on Kerouac, listen to The History of Literature podcast – here