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Ferlinghetti: Not All Beat Poets Are Beat

Regina Weinreich | Posted 04.12.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Jack Kerouac, Chris Felver, City Lights Books, Dennis Hopper, Allen Ginsberg, James Franco, Anne Waldman, Gary Snyder, Entertainment News
Regina Weinreich

Back in the day, the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti was all the rage. Paperbacks of A Coney Island of the Mind could be seen stuffed in jean pockets on college campuses. Now 93, he is the subject of a valuable biopic by photographer and filmmaker Chris Felver

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Kerouac in Cannes: A Road Not Taken

Regina Weinreich | Posted 07.26.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Kristen Stewart, Peter Orlovsky, On the Road Film, Sissy Spacek, Joyce Johnson, Jack Kerouac, Walter Salles, Steve Buscemi, Allen Ginsberg, David Cronenberg, Carolyn Cassady, Hettie Jones, John Heard, Nick Nolte, Kirsten Dunst, Naked Lunch, Amy Adams, Joan Vollmer, Robert Frank, Jose Rivera, Anne Waldman, Entertainment News
Regina Weinreich

I am pleased that the reports from Cannes about the On the Road, Walter Salles' film are mainly favorable, although I have taken note that some say there is no inner world for the characters, that the film has no discernable plot, that it is overlong.

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Memorable Books Of 2011

Regina Weinreich | Posted 03.02.2012 | Books
Read More: 2011 Books, Best Books 2011, Bob Holman, Carol Muske-Dukes, Jack Kerouac, New-Years-2012, Thelma Adams, Denis Johnson, Phoebe Hoban, Jeffrey Eugenides, Anne Waldman, Walter Isaacson, Gail Levin, Books News
Regina Weinreich

Languishing on a beach chair in my winter outpost by a turquoise sea, I have only books on my mind. Here are a few that have pleased and provoked.

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Third Eye on the News: Talking to Buddhists About the '08 Race and the "Rough Old Trade" of Politics

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Thom Hartmann, Wes Nisker, Robert Thurman, Spirituality, Ken Jones, Anne Waldman, Sulak Sivaraksa, Tricycle, Buddhism and Politics, Spirituality and Politics, Buddhism, Roshi Bernie Glassman, Politics News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

These election years are especially challenging: One candidate plays dirty, the other occasionally disappoints, and the media rig the game. It seemed like a good idea to ask some Buddhists for guidance.

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