James Grauerholz, the overseer of the William Burroughs estate, is dead. Oliver Harris, one of the leading scholars of the novelist's world, pays tribute to the man and his achievement for Rock and the Beat Generation…
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Poet Anne Waldman continues to be powerful force on multiple fronts: published writer, on-stage performer and central focus of recent biodoc Outrider. Jonah Raskin saw the Alystyre Julian movie at a screening in SF for Rock & the Beat Generation…
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Steven Taylor, Fugs guitarist & 20 years an accompanist to Allen Ginsberg, takes on the new Patti Smith memoir Bread of Angels for Rock & the Beat Generation. Taylor finds much to enjoy in this backtrack to the very early days of the would-be poet rocker
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Winter Sky w/ Car, December, Yorkshire
We interview Ron Rosenbaum about his recent Bob Dylan biography Things Have Changed. Rosenbaum has some critical words regarding Dylan's relationship with Allen Ginsberg. Rock and the Beat Generation was keen to find out more.
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60 years today a classic SF photoshoot saw Beat poet Allen Ginsberg & Bob Dylan snapped in Jack Kerouac Alley. Poets & critics, historians & rock writers, explain the reasons for this transgenerational summit. Rock & the Beat Generation reports…
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Ron Rosenbaum's bold & provocative Things Have Changed brings numerous fresh angles to Dylan’s oft-reported story. The writer has a very negative take on Allen Ginsberg's influence. Rock & the Beat Generation Editor Simon Warner weighs up the evidence…
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At last, a store for the tramp about town…
Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris reviews The Bunker Diaries, Stewart Meyer’s account of life in WSB’s legendary Manhattan headquarters for Rock & the Beat Generation. The dealer & would-be writer offers intimate insights into that underground enclave…
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Soul searching: In the week that the English monarchy broke its 500-year-old golden rule – don’t go praying with no popes – a packed congregation filled Halifax Minster to worship at the feet of a Luther Vandross impersonator to absorb a little gospel truth. Postmodernity indeed.
70 yrs ago today Ginsberg's 'Howl' was given its premiere at the 6 Gallery in SF. David S. Wills’ book about the event is Remarkable Collection of Angels. He talks to Rock & the Beat Generation about the challenges of writing the title…
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As the 70th anniv of ‘Howl’’s premiere nears, David S. Wills’ investigation into the landmark 6 Gallery reading, A Remarkable Collection of Angels, is scrutinised for Rock & the Beat Generation by our Chief Book Reviewer & Ginsberg expert Jonah Raskin…
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Joyce Johnson, Kerouac’s girlfriend as he made his breakthrough with On the Road, turns 90 today. The woman, who would go on to become a successful writer herself, talks jazz & folk to Rock & the Beat Generation’s Simon Warner in an exclusive interview…
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Megafungi: Paperback book just a marker but four huge mushrooms on our lawn. What are they, I wonder?
As the latest Dylan Bootleg Series surfaces, the new Mojo cover mount CD puns on the recent Bob biodrama…
Melody Maker, 1968…
Why doesn’t Trump concentrate on exerting maximum sanctions on Putin’s evil empire rather than fighting the Fed and taking on its only black woman governor? Crush Russia’s economy not your own, you megalomaniac fool.
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Guardian headline: ‘Russia says it must be part of international talks on Ukraine’s security’
Yeah, like arsonists should be part of wildfire management plans…
Allen Ginsberg's 1965 Prague adventure is a key episode in Brian K. Goodman's recent title The Nonconformists. Jonah Raskin, Rock and the Beat Generation's Chief Book Reviewer, finds much to fascinate in the churning waters of the Cold War conversation...
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Might Dylan have attended the famed Kesey/Kerouac Prankster bash in NYC in summer 1964? In this speculative account, Rock & the Beat Generation’s Simon Warner engages the collective minds of Beat experts to consider the evidence…
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Best (real) band name for a while:
Near Jazz Experience
Couldn’t Putin be legitimately arrested for his war crimes when he enters the United States on Friday. There is certainly a legal bounty on his head.
Stewart Lee, stand-up comic, presents a new Radio 4 series What Happened to Counter-Culture? Heading this queue of disruptives are the Beats with Ginsberg christening this very production. Simon Warner reviews the show at Rock & the Beat Generation
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Of interest? A snapshot of our current home page at Rock and the Beat Generation…
Legendary Beat historian Miles is the subject of the latest interview at Rock & the Beat Generation, as the famed Albert Hall reading, the International Poetry Incarnation, commemorates its 60th anniv on this very day. Leon Horton asks the questions…
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Terri Thal, Dylan's first manager, contributes a third article to Rock and the Beat Generation, this time focusing on the effect the Beatles' emergence in the US had on the Greenwich Village folk scene…
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Even VAR can’t save Lineker
