The Rabbit is anxious to see Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s Allen Ginsberg film, Howl, which opens today in New York and San Francisco (over a thousand miles from either, I’ll no doubt have to wait for the Netflix release). Not meaning to sound like Popeye here, but animation fan…
The Best Mind of His Generation
In which the Rabbit talks about the Ginsberg film he hasn't yet seen...
September 24th, 2010 · No Comments
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Kerouac, Ginsberg, Lenny Bruce and Me
Helen Weaver's Beat memoir brings Greenwich Village of the 1950s to life.
August 12th, 2010 · No Comments
“I am the man who has best charted his inmost self.” Antonin Artaud quoted by Helen Weaver
Helen Weaver’s account of her early days in Greenwich Village is misleadingly titled. Weaver, a new age author and translator nominated for a National Book Award in 1977 for her reading of Antonin Artaud,…
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School of Beat
Allen Ginsberg is the center of Bill Morgan's history of the Beat movement.
August 5th, 2010 · No Comments
–“I saw the best minds of my generation….” Allen Ginsberg
According to Beat archivist Bill Morgan, the poet Gregory Corso — or maybe it was poet Gary Snyder as claimed by Beat chronicler Ann Charters — once said that three people (three or four, in Snyder’s quote) do not make a generation.…
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Beat Goes On
Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, as well as the poets, artists and women of the Beat movement go! go! go! in Harvey Pekar's latest comic history
June 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment
The Beats of America’s 1950s stood far apart from the duty-bound, God-and-country, organizational-man times. It didn’t take long for the commercial culture to assimilate them in a wave of berets and bongos. The poetry, novels and art of the true counter-culture known as Beat is an honest reflection of American spirit and independence, commercial culture be damned.
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