A Bob Dylan auction – (Al Aronowitz‘s archives) – this Saturday (tomorrow) – will include the original of this note that appears on the cover of Allen’s Indian Journals. – “Allen Ginsberg is both tragic and dynamic, a lyrical genius, a con man extraordinaire and probably the single greatest influence on American poetical voice since Whitman.’ As Steven Taylor pointed out, in his review of the recently-released Bob Dylan movie, A Complete Unknown – “Dylan might have said it of himself. If there is a single gesture characteristic of Dylan’s life and work, it is the invisible wink of the con man.”
Brian Hassett reviews A Complete Unknown – here
More reviews of A Complete Unknown – here
Steven Taylor is, of course, alongside so many other things, a Fug (if not an original Fug). (We’ve been looking at the Substacks – Kris Needs (“Kris’s Substack”) profiles and traces the history of Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg‘s legendary rock band – here)
and Bob Dylan, don’t forget, was/is a big Fugs fan

Jerry Cimino, Beat Museum honcho, explains: “Our latest ticket design commemorates the 60-year anniversary of when Allen Ginsberg embarked upon the journeys he would document in the collection The Fall of America: Poems of These States, 1965–1971, published by City Lights in 1973.
In 1965, Allen was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship, and used part of the money to purchase a used Volkswagen minibus and set off across the continent. Bob Dylan had also helped Ginsberg purchase a portable Uher tape recorder, with which he obsessively documented his thoughts, impressions, and observations from the road, bearing witness to this especially contentious period in history. Thus the pieces that comprise The Fall of America are “composed on the tongue,” as Allen believed poetry should be, moving him toward the more spontaneous style he desired.”
Each of our collectible ticket designs are printed in a limited run of 2,000 each, and will be available soon while supplies last.”
and speaking of honchos, Oliver Harris, co-founder and President of the European Beat Studies Network (recently featured in these pages – here) is interviewed by Simon Warner
for Rock and The Beat Generation offering more thoughts about the Luca Guadagnino William Burroughs adaptation
For his comprehensive review of Queer, the movie- see here