Introduction: Who Owns the Words Owns the Writer

Time speeds along the straights, slows at the corners, smashes through the gates. Unknown destinations broaden the mind. Brakes scream where they must. Under the Counterculture is a celebration of left-field thinking, mad ideas and strange truths from the underground - music, literature, art and philosophy, science, sex, drugs and technology -back-projected from the past, …

Gregory Corso: Ten Times a Poet

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Sp8n1UWTXh35jxW/ My new book, as editor and contributor, a tribute to the legendary Beat poet, will be available soon from Roadside Press. Essays, memoirs, poetry, interviews, photography, and artwork from such luminaries as Ed Sanders, Anne Waldman, Gerald Nicosia, Neeli Cherkovski, Ron Whitehead, Kirby Olson, Kurt Hemmer, Rosemary Manno, Nina Zivancevic Raymond Foye, Francis Kuipers, …

Bomb-Blast and Attitude: Everything You Need to Know About Jeff Nuttall

Provocative, uncompromising, disturbing and violently funny, countercultural artist Jeff Nuttall was a great many things – actor, teacher, writer, jazz preacher – to a great many people thanks to his work with My Own Mag, The People Show and Bomb Culture. Over a career spanning more than 40 books and a multitude of mediums, controversy, …

Gerald Nicosia: In Praise of Jack Kerouac in the Bleak Inhuman Loneliness

You would have to be dead or in a coma to have missed the fact that March 12, 2022, marked the centenary of the birth of writer and lonesome traveller Jack Kerouac, author of On the Road. To mark the occasion, Leon Horton talks to the writer and scholar Gerald Nicosia, author of Kerouac: The …

Books, Beats, and Badass Journalists: An Interview with David S. Wills

David S. Wills is the founder and editor of Beatdom Books and the author of Scientologist! William S. Burroughs and the ‘Weird Cult’ (2013), Crossing India the Hard Way (2018) and World Citizen: Allen Ginsberg as Traveller (2019). His latest work High White Notes: The Rise and Fall of Gonzo Journalism, an in-depth analysis of …

Charles Bukowski: Only Tough Guys Shit Themselves in Public

Charles Bukowski, like most writers, was never happier than when he was alone at the typewriter; beer-in-hand, glugging into the night, hiding in plain language. But writers, especially poets, can rarely afford to let their work speak for itself. Dragged from their caves into the tyranny of the light, they are often pushed into the …

Gregory Corso Exhibition

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Kicking Against the Pricks: An Interview with Chris Kelso

Chris Kelso is an award-winning writer, the author of nine novels, three short story collections and editor of five anthologies. His writing, celebrated for its transgressive style and dysfunctional subject matter, has appeared in Evergreen Review, Sensitive Skin and 3AM Magazine. The British Fantasy Society described The Dregs Trilogy – a degenerate platter of snuff …

Patti Smith by Victor Bockris

Fantastic feature and review of Victor Bockris’ biography on Patti Smith…

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Living the Outrageous Lie* (Part 1)

Patti Smith by Victor Bockris, 1998 UK Edition, Published by Fourth Estate

”The literary outpout of the short-lived punk movement has been largely ignored. No one came close to Patti Smith at the time in terms of her recognition as a writer.”-Victor Bockris

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I have already reviewed ”Just Kids” and”M Train”  before here on LAN, so I thought that by now I had a pretty accurate and complete picture of Patti Smith: Poet, punk prophet, feminist icon, rock writer; a punk-rock star mixing her distinct voice and poetry with rock and roll music.  I was so wrong. ”Just Kids” gives you an unforgettable complete picture of her childhood and early days, highlighting her relationship with now famous photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and the “Chelsea Hotel” days, while ”M Train” picks up years…

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Towers Open Fire: the Cut-Up Films of William Burroughs and Antony Balch

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Hunter S. Thompson: Fear and Loathing in utero

This article is respectfully dedicated to my friend Paul Clements (1964-2017), another good Doctor sorely missed. Owl Farm, Colorado, February 20, 2005 – 5:42 p.m. Hunter S. Thompson, hell-raiser and author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, takes a phone call from his wife Anita at the Aspen Club and apologises for almost accidentally …