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Allen Ginsberg
Dreams of Liberation: Alex Zamalin on the Political Power of American Countercultures
The Author of “Counterculture” in Conversation with Aaron Robertson
By
Aaron Robertson
| February 19, 2025
On the Report of Poetry’s Death, or: What Does That AI Poetry Study Really Tell Us?
Jen Benka Considers Art in the Age of ChatGPT
By
Jen Benka
| December 3, 2024
The Man Who Created the Trade Paperback
Michael Castleman on the Life and Times of Jason Epstein, Cofounder of “The New York Review of Books”
By
Michael Castleman
| July 18, 2024
“We Want to Make It Feel Like a Party.” On the Transformation of Southwest Review
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By
Mark Haber
| November 21, 2023
Rich Ferguson, Mary Kerr, and S.A. Griffin on the Heart of Beat Literature
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Otherppl
By
Otherppl with Brad Listi
| November 15, 2022
Elegy for Minor Poets: Writing on the Margins of Midcentury Greatness
Jen DeGregorio Investigates the Literary Lives of David Omer Bearden and Alan Bätjer Russo
By
Jen DeGregorio
| June 6, 2022
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Katie Bennett
| April 25, 2022
John Clellon Holmes on the Funeral of His Longtime Friend Jack Kerouac
By
John Clellon Holmes
| March 11, 2022
On the Centenary of Jack Kerouac’s Birth, Rarely Seen Archival Material from His Publisher
By
Literary Hub
| March 11, 2022
How the Beat Generation Created the Uniform for Disaffected Youth
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By
Sophie Wilson
| March 1, 2022
Jack Kerouac fetishized the white working class almost as much as a
NY Times
reporter.
By
Jonny Diamond
| February 16, 2022
Charles J. Shields on the Profound and Playful Friendship Between Lorraine Hansberry and James Baldwin
“Baldwin loved her caustic wit.”
By
Charles J. Shields
| January 19, 2022
Here are 7 book recommendations for Rory Gilmore.
By
Snigdha Koirala
| September 15, 2021
Watch Allen Ginsberg perform the first song he ever wrote, on the roof of his apartment.
By
Walker Caplan
| June 3, 2021
A new original draft of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” has just been discovered.
By
Walker Caplan
| March 24, 2021
When Lawrence Ferlinghetti Defended a Tribute to Allen Ginsberg
Annice Jacoby on Hosting a “Poets Kaddish”
By
Annice Jacoby
| March 3, 2021
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