Friday’s Weekly Round-Up – 358
March 23, 2018
Tomorrow is Lawrence Ferlinghetti‘s 99th birthday. There’ll be more about that tomorrow. Meanwhile, for today… Lawrence Ferlinghetti interviewed by John McMurtrie in the San Francisco[…]
Friday’s Weekly Round-Up – 302
February 10, 2017
The legendary Joan Anderson letter is back in the news again. “The seminal piece of literature of the Beat Generation”, Neal Cassady’s epic letter to Jack Kerouac, which, for almost sixty years, was thought[…]
Allen Ginsberg on Jack Kerouac – 1
March 10, 2014
This week (Wednesday) is Jack Kerouac’s birthday. As a warm-up, we present today, a little fugitive item – Allen’s “Letter on Kerouac”. It appeared in the inaugeral (Spring 1970) issue of the magazine Madrugada Dear Barry (Gifford) – Thanks for your kind letter made sense – Someone mentioned reading Desolation Angels (not[…]