rather than win the hearts of scholars, i wish to relate to you the mind-lowing experience the writing of antonin artaud… rather than hard facts i shall give you this somewhat poetic account of my reading of and investigation into artaud’s works:

when i read antonin artaud, i enter this special region within my mind… like an entrance into the halls of madness… artaud’s writing is deep, it cuts, it swerves, it swirls…

artaud was accused of being a madman, but when i read artaud i wonder …

Spurred on by urgent purpose, George Orwell (the penname of Eric Arthur Blair) began writing the first of two books for which he is most famous, Animal Farm, at the end of 1943 at a critical point during World War Two. The Red Army of the Soviet Union, facing the brunt of Nazi Germany’s best fighting forces, was valiantly waging a desperate fight to turn the tide of the war in favor of the Allies, and in doing so, was helping to keep England …

“…They talk of democracy, freedom, fairness. Those are the words of cowards. The one’s who will listen to a thousand viewpoints and try to satisfy them all. Victory comes through absolute power and power through strength. They have lost!”
Davros in ‘The Genesis of the Daleks’


Born on the 5th of November, 1930, Terrence Nation is still waiting for his ‘big break’ so to speak. Although he has achieved minor cult status in his native England, a reputation of any sort in America remains more or less …

“So you better get this party started…”

P!nk at a poetry reading? You better believe it. As the evening kicked off with the words “I’m Comin’ Up…” blasting through the Bowery Poetry Club, there was no doubt that this would be a night of raw energy and talent. At just a few minutes past 7, the club was already filled with people and the performers were ready to roll. Levi Asher of …

Yitzroch Loiza Groosberg was born in New York City on Aug 17, 1923, the child of Ukranian immigrants. Fascinated from an early age by the city’s jazz scene, young Yitzroch emerged as Larry Rivers, saxophonist and leader of Larry Rivers and the Mudcats, one of many configurations with which he would play.

At the age of 22, he discovered modern art and began to paint. His playful, colorful ironic pastiches instantly gained notice, and he began balancing a career as a serious artist with …

It is Dean Moriarty, in Jack Kerouac’s On The Road, who represents the eternal flame of youth that was adopted by the rebellious youth culture of the Beat Generation. He is free from responsibility, “simply a youth tremendously excited with life…want[ing] so much to live and to get involved with people who would otherwise pay no attention to him” (Kerouac 4). Just as the Greek of the Olympics, “with [the] torch…[that] ignites the pagan dream of immortality” (Rodriguez 1), Dean embodies the almost immortal flame …

Samuel Taylor Coleridge set out to write a poem describing an opium-induced dream he had, the result was “Kubla Khan”. “Kubla Khan” is a very mysterious poem; it describes a world not like any humans have ever known. A world where its hard to tell whether it’s a place of beauty, full of calm and goodness, or whether it’s a dark an sinister strange land. This poem shows the process of describing a dream on paper, something that is impossible to do, a lot …