Looking back on a few recent events:
Jonah Raskin reviews the Howl@70 celebratory event at City Lights Bookstore this past 5th of November – see here
and Patti Smith’s memoir, Bread of Angels (published November 4), continues to get laudatory reviews. Here’s David Hadju in the New York Times and Maureen Corrigan
in The Washington Post – here
Will Hermes reviews it for The Guardian here
John Wieners – Behind The State Capitol (re-published, upcoming pub. date, November 25th). Jim Dunn (in conversation with Doug Holder – on John Wieners – here
Jan Kerouac’s Baby Driver gets a delightful NYRB reprint. Amanda Fortini writes the introduction. Eric Vanderwell on Baby Driver – see here
The always-informative Rock and The Beat Generation (see Jonah Raskin’s piece above) has, this week, part two of Leon Horton’s interview with Beat biographer, Barry Miles
For part one – see here
For Miles on the Allen Ginsberg Project – see here and here
& let’s end it, and why not?, with more Patti:
Thank you for sharing my interview with Miles.