Late Ginsberg interview, with a plug from the interviewer for litkicks

by Allez33

Posted to WritersAndGenres on 2003-10-03 04:43:00

This is an interview with Allen that took place in the last year of his life. Interestingly, at the beginning of it, the interviewer notes the following:

[Interviewer’s note: Following our conversation, I showed Allen the World Wide Web for the first time. I’d been telling him about the self-publishing samizdat aspect of the Web, knowing that he’d made a point of donating his work to small, labor-of-love zines even after he was the best known poet in America. I took Allen immediately to Levi Asher’s Literary Kicks site, to the page on his work there, clicking through Jack Kerouac’s and Neal Cassady’s names to demonstrate hypertext to him.

He didn’t say much, and then I took him to a search engine, where a search on the phrase “allen ginsberg” called out 2,000 hits – probably the maximum. He looked at all the pages built in his name.

“Thank God I don’t know how to work this,” Allen sighed. – S.S.]

http://hotwired.wired.com/talk/club/special/transcripts/96-12-16-ginsberg.html

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