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Kerouac’s Road: The Beat of A Nation – this documentary can’t reconcile nostalgia with the true contemporary US

When Jack Kerouac published On the Road in 1957, he presented the novel as the product of a single marathon writing binge. It was a method he had been working on since the late 1940s that his friend Allen Ginsberg dubbed “spontaneous bop prosody”.

The Conversation

Liverpool poet Brian Patten dies at 79

His poetry often explored love and relationships and he wrote books for children including Gargling With Jelly

The Guardian - UK

Allen Ginsberg in the back of my cab: Ryan Weideman’s best photograph

‘When I stopped to let him out, he was looking down. I didn’t know what he was doing. Turned out he was writing a poem about me. I still have it’

The Guardian - UK

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Mother Mary Comes To Me by Arundhati Roy review – brave and absorbing

In this remarkable memoir, the Booker-winning novelist looks back on her bittersweet relationship with her mercurial mother

The Guardian - UK

A Beatnik Tourist in Ayahuasca Country

William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg's trip reports form one of the most entertaining books in the Beat canon.

Reason

Counting Crows’ Adam Duritz: ‘Kurt Cobain’s death scared me – it taught me what could happen to me’

INTERVIEW: The frontman of one of the biggest rock acts of the Nineties talks to Sarfraz Manzoor about the breakdown he experienced after Cobain’s suicide, finding peace by hanging out with Johnny Depp and Allen Ginsberg at The Viper Room, and his struggles with dissociative disorder

The Independent UK

“If you don’t like Bringing It All Back Home, you don’t like music. You should hand your ears back.” Bob Dylan’s game-changing album is 60 today and still astonishing

Yeah, I said it.

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The ultra-rich want to escape. Good idea

Billionaires are building luxury getaways to hide from civilization’s collapse. Cool. We’re better off without them

Salon

Peter Hujar’s Day review – Ben Whishaw goes low-key in snapshot of the photographer’s remarkable life

Whishaw is not tested by this verbatim retelling of Hujar’s day in hip 1970s New York, recounting encounters with Ginsburg, Burroughs and Leibowitz

The Guardian - UK

‘What’s going on in Bob Dylan’s head’: Mr Tambourine Man lyrics up for auction

Rare drafts of one of Dylan’s best known songs found in journalist’s archive could fetch up to $1 million as part of wider legacy sale

The Guardian - UK

30 Pictures That Take Us Back To New York In The 1990s

This archive is full of street scenes, landmarks, and iconic locations in New York that have been majorly transformed since. The post 30 Pictures That Take Us Back To New York In The 1990s first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Andrew Judd obituary

Other lives: Printer and artist with a love of poetry, which he illustrated with linocuts of his native landscape

The Guardian - UK

Does mental illness beget great poetry? These 4 poets exposed the sickness of a society that sought to contain them

This article contains references to suicide.

The Conversation

Poetry fan Matt Peat hoping Wigan go with the flow at Wembley

Peat is willing to implement fresh ideas with the Warriors.

The Independent UK

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Anita Pallenberg on sex, drugs and her time with the Rolling Stones

In this interview from the archives, Chris Sullivan talks to the late model and muse about her life in swinging Sixties London

The Independent UK

Caleb Carr, military historian and author of bestselling novel 'The Alienist,' dies at 68

Caleb Carr, the scarred and gifted son of founding Beat Lucien Carr who endured a traumatizing childhood and became a bestselling novelist, accomplished military historian and late-life memoirist of his devoted cat Masha, has died

The Guardian - UK

Travels Over Feeling: Arthur Russell, a Life review – down the rabbit hole with a musical maverick

He played cello for Allen Ginsberg, nearly joined Talking Heads and was sampled by Kanye West. Now the singular, genre-spanning Russell has the exhaustive study he deserves

The Guardian - US

‘Life is about creating yourself’: on Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine

The Dylan Center in Tulsa offers a read as endlessly fascinating, as vital to the American story, as its subject himself

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Gavin Selerie obituary

Other lives: Lecturer and writer whose poetry mixed verse with original academic analysis

Evening Standard

All the poets turned down for the laureate in 1968

Prominent poets of the era — including John Betjeman, WH Auden, and Philip Larkin — were disparaged, accused of being drunkards, snobs, communists, mentally unstable, or even creators of explicit content

The Guardian - UK

‘It made me wish I had made more records’: Natalie Merchant on returning to music after losing her voice

Emergency surgery on her spine led to months of enforced silence for the former 10,000 Maniacs singer-songwriter. But rather than take it easy, she’s been raising her teenage daughter, campaigning against fracking and has a new album out

Reason

A Modern History of 'Groomer' Politics

The social changes that paved the way for gay and trans acceptance have made pedophile acceptance less likely, not more.

Evening Standard

Vaughan Williams - A Celebration at the Royal Festival Hall review: showed the sheer power of the Bach Choir

One of Britain’s most cosmopolitan composers was celebrated with a forceful performance of the immense A Sea Symphony

The Guardian - UK

Harold Chapman obituary

Photographer who documented regulars at the ‘Beat hotel’ in Paris including Allen Ginsberg and William S Burroughs

Reason

Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems Triggered Confiscations, Arrests

San Francisco port officials seized copies of Howl and Other Poems in 1957, accusing publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti of obscenity.

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