Gregory Corso

Cleto Munari Auctions His Collection

J. Michael Welton | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Furniture, Carlo Scarpa, Jack Kerouac, Poet, Architecture, Robert Venturi, Jewelry, Allen Ginsberg, Silverware, Gregory Corso, Artist, Designers, Richard Meier, Michael Graves, Cleto Munari, Arts News
J. Michael Welton

Designer Cleto Munari is putting his personal collection of art, furnishings and objects -- many created in conjunction with architects like Michael G...

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Barney Rosset, Richard Seaver, and William Burroughs in Midcentury Paris

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Henry Miller, Peter Orlovsky, James Baldwin, Harold Norse, Woody Allen, William Burroughs, Irwin Shaw, Jean Genet, Bill Morgan. Brion Gysin, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Jeannette Seaver, Peter Stone, Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Gertrude Stein, Richard Seaver, George Plimpton, D.H. Lawrence, Barney Rosset, Books News
Regina Weinreich

Barney Rosset died last week at age 89, and for those who valued his contribution to upholding First Amendment rights in this country, his championing the works of artists, the event truly marks the end of an era.

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Remembering George Whitman

Janice Harper | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Gregory Corso, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, George Whitman, Independent Bookstores, Books News
Janice Harper

Years ago, back in the early eighties after reading too much Henry Miller to do a woman any good, I found myself in Paris, squatting in an old and dusty room above the legendary booksellers, Shakespeare & Company.

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A Burroughs Milestone

Jan Herman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Robert Creeley, Beat Hotel, Olympia Press, Brion Gysin, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Big Table, Black Mountain Review, Leroi Jones, Irving Rosenthal, Diane Di Prima, Naked Lunch, Semina 4, Maurice Girodias, Yugen, Video, Healthy Living News
Jan Herman

Jed Birmingham discusses the importance of little magazines to William Burroughs and their role in the publication and reception of Naked Lunch.

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Harold Norse, R.I.P.

Jan Herman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: William Carlos Williams, Gregory Corso, Anais Nin, Beat Generation, W.H. Auden, James Baldwin, Harold Norse, Brion Gysin, William S. Burroughs, Tennessee Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Poetry, Memoirs of a Bastard Angel, Hotel Nirvana, City Lights, Healthy Living News
Jan Herman

He said he was a poet, too. I no longer recall what we talked about, but it didn't take long for him to invite me back to his room at 9 rue Git-le-Coeur, the so-called Beat Hotel.

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