Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris reviews The Bunker Diaries, Stewart Meyer’s account of life in WSB’s legendary Manhattan headquarters for Rock & the Beat Generation. The dealer & would-be writer offers intimate insights into that underground enclave…
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02.11.2025 14:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Soul searching: In the week that the English monarchy broke its 500-year-old golden rule – don’t go praying with no popes – a packed congregation filled Halifax Minster to worship at the feet of a Luther Vandross impersonator to absorb a little gospel truth. Postmodernity indeed.
24.10.2025 12:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Interview #45: David S. Wills
New 'Howl' history further unpacked
70 yrs ago today Ginsberg's 'Howl' was given its premiere at the 6 Gallery in SF. David S. Wills’ book about the event is Remarkable Collection of Angels. He talks to Rock & the Beat Generation about the challenges of writing the title…
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07.10.2025 12:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Book review #55: A Remarkable Collection of Angels
Legend reprised, myths busted in 'Howl' history
As the 70th anniv of ‘Howl’’s premiere nears, David S. Wills’ investigation into the landmark 6 Gallery reading, A Remarkable Collection of Angels, is scrutinised for Rock & the Beat Generation by our Chief Book Reviewer & Ginsberg expert Jonah Raskin…
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01.10.2025 15:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Interview #44: Joyce Johnson
Beat legend turns 90, talks music
Joyce Johnson, Kerouac’s girlfriend as he made his breakthrough with On the Road, turns 90 today. The woman, who would go on to become a successful writer herself, talks jazz & folk to Rock & the Beat Generation’s Simon Warner in an exclusive interview…
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27.09.2025 06:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Megafungi: Paperback book just a marker but four huge mushrooms on our lawn. What are they, I wonder?
23.09.2025 14:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Melody Maker, 1968…
28.08.2025 14:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Why doesn’t Trump concentrate on exerting maximum sanctions on Putin’s evil empire rather than fighting the Fed and taking on its only black woman governor? Crush Russia’s economy not your own, you megalomaniac fool.
28.08.2025 14:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@ginsbergpoem.bsky.social
20.08.2025 15:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Guardian headline: ‘Russia says it must be part of international talks on Ukraine’s security’
Yeah, like arsonists should be part of wildfire management plans…
20.08.2025 15:08 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Book review #53: The Nonconformists
Beats, jazz and rock in a Cold climate
Allen Ginsberg's 1965 Prague adventure is a key episode in Brian K. Goodman's recent title The Nonconformists. Jonah Raskin, Rock and the Beat Generation's Chief Book Reviewer, finds much to fascinate in the churning waters of the Cold War conversation...
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20.08.2025 11:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Kesey party...but why no Dylan?
When Beat stars joined Pranksters' NY bash
Might Dylan have attended the famed Kesey/Kerouac Prankster bash in NYC in summer 1964? In this speculative account, Rock & the Beat Generation’s Simon Warner engages the collective minds of Beat experts to consider the evidence…
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13.08.2025 14:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Best (real) band name for a while:
Near Jazz Experience
13.08.2025 14:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Couldn’t Putin be legitimately arrested for his war crimes when he enters the United States on Friday. There is certainly a legal bounty on his head.
10.08.2025 17:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Stewart Lee, stand-up comic, presents a new Radio 4 series What Happened to Counter-Culture? Heading this queue of disruptives are the Beats with Ginsberg christening this very production. Simon Warner reviews the show at Rock & the Beat Generation
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07.08.2025 21:32 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Of interest? A snapshot of our current home page at Rock and the Beat Generation…
23.07.2025 12:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Interview #38: Miles
Albert Hall extravaganza turns 60
Legendary Beat historian Miles is the subject of the latest interview at Rock & the Beat Generation, as the famed Albert Hall reading, the International Poetry Incarnation, commemorates its 60th anniv on this very day. Leon Horton asks the questions…
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11.06.2025 15:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Terri Thal #3: Folkies and the Beatles
When British Invasion met Greenwich Village
Terri Thal, Dylan's first manager, contributes a third article to Rock and the Beat Generation, this time focusing on the effect the Beatles' emergence in the US had on the Greenwich Village folk scene…
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23.05.2025 13:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Even VAR can’t save Lineker
19.05.2025 11:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Book review #47: Hello, Paradise, Paradise, Goodbye
Poet Matson: Found and lost?
With links to Allen Ginsberg, Herbert Huncke and Diane di Prima, Clive Matson is a great Beat survivor, who began life as a poet on the Lower East Side the 1960s. Regular Rock & the Beat Generation reviewer Jonah Raskin considers his latest collection…
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13.05.2025 13:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
With Ruben Amorim blatantly weighing up his future, I go back to a thought I’ve had quite often over the last decade or so: David Moyes was never given long enough at what has become England’s most dysfunctional football club.
12.05.2025 07:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@exprai.bsky.social
06.05.2025 14:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Terri Thal #2: That Dylan movie
Informed take on singer's bio-drama
Terri Thal, Dylan's first manager, supplies another informed reflection on a topic much in the news in recent months: the biopic A Complete Unknown. She brings her own unique angles on the movie, in this exclusive account for Rock & the Beat Generation…
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06.05.2025 14:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The Observer, the UK’s oldest Sunday newspaper and relaunched today under new ownership, is now the nation’s newest weekend print edition…
27.04.2025 14:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Book review #45: The Silver Snarling Trumpet
Dead origin story related by band lyricist
Respected West Coast poet Marc Zegans digs deep into The Silver Snarling Trumpet, the great rock lyricist Robert Hunter’s novelistic account of the early Grateful Dead. Check out his review at Rock and the Beat Generation…
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19.04.2025 17:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great to see some politically conscious football badgeware!
17.04.2025 16:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Book review #32: Talkin' Greenwich Village
Artistic quarter's chequered past
My own review of Browne’s Greenwich Village book at Rock and the Beat Generation: simonwarner.substack.com/p/book-revie...
16.04.2025 14:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
