Allen Ginsberg

The Frisco Kid He Never Returns: Naked Lunch and San Francisco

Presentation by Oliver Harris during Naked Lunch @ 50 San Francisco Art Institute, 20 November 2009 I’d like to begin by thanking Peter Maravelis and Jonah Raskin for inviting me to join in tonight’s events and to the San...

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Restaurant Owner's Email to Staff Belongs in Tyrant Hall of Fame

Smart Destinations' Flickr More than two dozen Park Slope restaurants and cafes owe at least $910,000 in unpaid wages to more than 200 workers, the State Labor Department announced yesterday . Inspections during the spring...

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RE: Famous Potheads

Dead musicians. Harrison Ford, Actor. Howard Marks. Ex-smuggler and Raconteur... R H Princess Margaret, sister to Her Majesty the Queen. Howard Stern Hua T?o Medical use as anaesthetic . Hunter S. Thompson, Author...

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Boyd Tonkin: How to ruin a great writer's good name

What, apart from being dead and, in their different ways, remarkable, do the following authors have in common: Kingsley Amis, Saul Bellow, Roberto Bolaño, Jorge Luis Borges, William Burroughs, Italo Calvino, John Cheever, Ralph...

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Truth about the sex trade from Edward Kienholz

By Brian Sewell, Evening Standard 19.11.09 In London this year the most memorable event in the field of modern art will prove to have been not at Tate Modern, nor at any of its satellites, not at the empty plinth, nor even at...

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Poet & anti-poet: The duality of Lawrence writer Jim McCrary

Event info Jim McCrary and Judy Roitman, book release and reading 6:30 p.m., at the Spencer Museum of Art, 1301 Miss. This reading is the Lawrence release for local writer Jim McCrary's first "real" book, "All That" — a...

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Dave Eggers has outgrown his critics

Any truth in the charges of pretentiousness still being levelled at him stopped applying nearly a decade ago It may not rouse too much interest on this side of the Atlantic, but tonight Dave Eggers will be presented with the...

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The Frog Jumps - Monkey Mind

On this day in 1865 Samuel Clemens published his first story, the Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County in the New York Saturday Press . This story would become enormously popular and be repr...

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November 18th, 2009 - The Wreck of the Carl D. Bradley

Author Michael Schumacher will commemorate the anniversary of the loss of the ship, recreating the events and reading from the book. He will also discuss how the book came to be written, from the original proposal and research...

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The Soft Machines

By Dave Teeuwen William Burroughs had the unusual habit of rewriting and rereleasing his novels during the 1960s and 1970s. The First Edition The initial edition of The Soft Machine was released by Olympia Press in 1961 after...

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