epub |eng | 1999-07-01 | Author:Joyce Johnson [Johnson, Joyce]

There was a dark radiance about Elise when she was happy — you could always hear it immediately in her voice, like a light turned on behind the words. “Allen’s ...

epub |eng | 2008-07-15 | Author:Mikal Gilmore

June Carter joined Johnny Cash’s stage show in late 1961. Cash first met her backstage at the Opry in 1956. He walked over to her and introduced himself. “I know ...

epub |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:Bill Morgan

Chapter 14 The Threads Loosen A few days after Herb Caen’s 1958 invention of beatnikery, Neal Cassady was arrested in San Francisco for giving a small amount of marijuana to ...

mobi |eng | 2016-07-14 | Author:Michael Schumacher

7 There was resistance to the radical changes taking place in New York’s bohemian community, and soon enough Allen found himself battling the political forces that advocated censorship in opposition ...

epub |eng | 1993-08-01 | Author:Jack Kerouac [Kerouac, Jack]

Composition………by Jackie Duluoz.…. 6-B “Now up yonder in Suskahooty,” said Dead Eye Dick—no, I exaggerate, his name was Black Dan—“up yonder in Saskahoty,” said Dead Eye Dick Black Dan, “we ...

epub |eng | 2016-04-12 | Author:Jack Kerouac

I always rush up and take off ninety miles an hour for the nearest whore house, hor hor hor!” This was his “laugh” laugh---when he wasn’t really laughing. “Say Jack, ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Victor Bockris [Bockris, Victor]

VICTOR BOCKRIS: Are there only a handful of really good film makers in the world today? NICOLAS ROEG: There are a lot, but only a handful are being looked at ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1979-01-02 | Author:Allen Ginsberg

I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys. I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed ...

epub |eng | 2016-05-06 | Author:Allen Ginsberg

Allen. [Ginsberg extended his trip to South America month by month. He was determined to find a source for ayahuasca, the drug Burroughs had discovered in 1953 on his own ...

mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2013-07-10 | Author:David Sterritt

5. “The Death of Mrs. D,” a mixed-media collage by Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs. Named for a character in Nova Express, the third novel in Burroughs’s ambitious Nova ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-06-16 | Author:Jack Kerouac

23 BUT IN THE MORNING (and I’m no Milarepa who could also sit naked in the snow and was seen flying on one occasion) here comes Ron Blake back with ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1988-12-26 | Author:Jack Kerouac

5. NEW YORK SCENES AT THIS TIME MY MOTHER was living alone in a little apartment in Jamaica Long Island, working in the shoe factory, waiting for me to come ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-09-25 | Author:William S. Burroughs

GLOSSARY “Jive talk” is used more in connection with marijuana than with junk. In the past few years, however, the use of junk has spread into “hip,” or “jive talking” ...

epub |eng | 1976-01-15 | Author:Kerouac, Jack [Kerouac, Jack]

19 They all wanted me to sleep on the couch in the parlor by the comfortable oil-burning stove but I insisted on making my room (as before) on the back ...

epub |eng | 2011-08-04 | Author:Jack Kerouac

Odyssey (Continued) A series of short uneventful rides, and I find myself standing by the side of the road just over the Connecticut border. I am shaded by a natural ...