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A Frosty Vision


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The Uninhibited Bite of Dutch Mordant


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Paul Valéry Reminds Us ‘A Poem Is Never Finished, Only Abandoned’

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The Rulers of This Most Insecure of All Worlds Are Rulers By Accident

 


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A Gathering of Basquiats, Lichtensteins, and Warhols …

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Art Love Nature Think to Dupe


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Brion Gysin Uncut


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‘Unnatural Light’ from Cold Turkey Press


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There are day poets and night poets. Here is one of each.

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Neal Cassady: ‘The Joan Anderson Letter’

 


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Is This a Never-Before-Published Masterpiece From the Most Dangerous Writer on the Planet

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A New Way to Look at Shakespeare’s Sonnets


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This Side of Grub Street


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Out of Stock


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This Blogpost Is Personal


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A Traditional ‘Straight Up’ Thanksgiving

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Uncollected by Norman O. Mustill


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Mother Nature Is a Muthafucka


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Strictly Unpaid Advertising


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‘Trans-Am Totem’ and ‘Autogeddon’


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William Levy


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Nelson Algren’s Strange Midnight Dignity


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‘Prisoner: Come Out!’


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Power Malu Shines at 2019 Ackers


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A Silent Elegy in Motion


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Ferlinghetti: ‘Pity the Nation Whose Leaders Are Liars’

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City Lights: The Little Bookshop That Could

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SOCIAL MEDIA (for James Tate)


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Art: Gerard Bellaart

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Shulman’s ‘Age of Disenchantments’ Has Arrived

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Nancy & Sluggo Get Twisted


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Auschwitz & the Art of Advertising


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9 Deformed Sonnets for My Old Friend


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Cold Turkey Press: A Bibliography


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Infected by Light Verse


Jan Herman
Drawing: Malcolm Ritchie

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Reality as a Metaphysical Construct


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Tales of Doomsday Eros


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Nuttall’s ‘Bomb Culture’ Is Back


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Missing from the Warhol Retrospective

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A Centenary of Mass Butchery…


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Drawing by Other Means


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Tax Cheat Circus King


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Weapons of Choice: Mustill’s MESSKIT


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Hamilton & Beach, 32 Years Apart


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Valedictory in a Taxi Cruising Slowly

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Talk About ‘Graphic Novels’ . . .


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‘So Much Sour Salami’


Jan Harmen

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An Incandescent Poet in His Solitary Cell

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Two Ways of Looking at a Poem


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NNOI Festival = 90% Water


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Celebrating Carl Weissner, Buk, and Burroughs

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Majestically lonely and white


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The Moody Splendor of Manchester


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Meeting Jim’ (Who’s Having the Time of His Life)

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Edward Snowden on The Intercept


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Huge Wyler Retrospective in Paris

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Filthy Rotten T.S. Eliot, the Mofo


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Once Upon A Time in India


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Grub Street Deformation


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Screwed Beyond Repair?


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MORTAL COIL for Heathcote


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Ending the Year With a Cosmic Joke

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Blackbird

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On View: Mary Beach’s Witty ‘Illaminations’

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Vietnam and the Things We Must Never Forget


Paul Buhle

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James ‘No Name’ Baldwin, the Maverick


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Picturing the President

Art: Verlag Peter Engstler
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Bookstores in Their Anecdotage


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Trumpistan – Now A Country Named For Him


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Racism and the ‘Bigger Force’

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He Spread Peace, Love, and Booze

'Johnny Appleseed, Green Spirit of the Frontier' by Paul Buhle and Noah Van SciverJan Herman

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Tom Hayden: Gone But Not Forgotten

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Bob Dylan: fake, cultural thief, shameless and now… Nobel Prize winner


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Brexit Boris – From Mayor to Nightmare

Review: Jan Herman

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Nuttall Show Comes With a Warning

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Manchester

Sept 8-March 5th

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East-West Mash-Up, Hokusai Meets Wright

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Rugged Norwegian Art Show by War Vets

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Art for Dada’s Sake

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MoMA’s Hidden ‘Electro-Library’ Show

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Diderot Had the Right Idea

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Who Are the World’s Most Famous People?

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Le Vent Macabre

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Pélieu Show, With Norman Mailer Cocktail

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The Strange Case of Orwell’s Typewriter

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Trump Detour: Orwell Recalls a Fascist’s Rally

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Stolen Words

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And the Beat Goes On … And On

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Abolishing Time: Baudelaire & Cocteau Side by Side

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Redux: Dear Cannibals, Have a Happy Thanksgiving

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Cartoon Artist Kate Evans Does Rosa Luxemburg

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Frederick Forsyth – Exit from Fleet Street

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‘Plato’s Frogs’: A Long Way from ‘Saturday Night Live’

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Time Capsule: Algren, Burroughs, Mailer, et al

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A Little-Known Master Artist’s ‘Uncollected’ Works

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