Before two giants of 20th Century American literature were published, when both were unknown, discouraged and broke, Allen Ginsberg wrote a letter to Jack Kerouac telling him, “DON’T FLIP, take care of yourself now, rest from fatigue and figure what next to do. This is my poor advice.” Writers, as a general rule, are needy […]
Posts Tagged ‘Kerouac’
The approval of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Sly Stone
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010Dizzy, Bird and Jack
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009Third set at the Onyx Club on 52nd street, two in the morning on a winter’s night in New York, 1947 or maybe ‘48. It’s a little smoky jazz club and to some there, the music is chaotic, bewildering—stuff that sounds nothing like swing, the music of the Thirties or the War. But the hipsters […]
Rip this joint…
Saturday, December 13th, 2008In 1972, the Rolling Stones, about to begin a larger than life, full-blown rock and roll journey across America, released what became one of their most important records—Exile on Main Street. A mythic American landscape unreels in the music, like a deafening low-flying crop duster veering from one end of the continent to the other, […]
