Ginsberg Centennial continues. One of the earliest Centennial celebration events took place actually – last year! – City Lights Live! Howl at 70! – another anniversary celebration! – on November 5th, 2025, live-streamed from the fabled San Francisco bookstore.
It’s taken a little time but the video is now available here
Peter Maravelis introduces MC Pat Thomas (author of the invaluable Material Wealth) with appearances by Garrett Caples, Gary Gach, Judy Halebsky, Rozemin Keshvani, Dennis McNally, DA Powell, and Tate Swindell,
Jonah Raskin reviews the evening – here
Speaking of Jonah Raskin and City Lights. We mentioned recently Gioia Woods recently-published “biography of a book store. Raskin reviews that book for Counterpunch – here
Allen Ginsberg and William Blake. We’re continuing our transcriptions of Allen’s Blake lectures here on the Allen Ginsberg Project. Meanwhile, we can’t recommend too highly this little item:
Ah!America – a short excerpt from the volume can be read here
The book is available – here
Running Through Heaven, the Jack Kerouac exhibition opened at The Grolier Club last night. It will be up until May 16. More on that anon