These are the postage stamp images created for the earliest version of Literary Kicks. The “Beatnik series” (the first eight stamps) were created by Levi Asher. The Bukowski was created by Michael McCullough and the d.a. levy is the work of W. Luther Jett.

As Literary Kicks delves into it’s new format, the random stuff that used to clutter up this site will not be forever lost. Here are a few pages from ‘LitKicks Classic’:

• The Beat Generation Postage Stamp Series



• Beat News, wherein Levi pontificated freely about whatever bizarre ideas were possessing him at the moment



• Sherri Hoye’s extensive Beat Bibliography



• Levi’s interview with John Cassady



• Levi auditions for a starring
  role in the film version of ‘On The Road’


• Andrew Burnett’s Cassady-esque travelogue, ‘Neal’s Denver‘
• April 97 …

“I am an invisible man. No, i am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am i one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. i am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids–and i might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.”
Ralph Ellison, The Invisible Man
So begins Ralph Ellison’s major work of his lifetime. The Invisible Man shows the struggle of a young African-American in a …