Intellectual Curiosities and Provocations

August 1996

Beat News: August 8 1996

Beat Generation,
New York City,
News,
Tributes
1. I just heard that Herbert Huncke died this morning. Huncke was a close friend of William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg during the days of their early adventures together in New York City. He was their prototypical Times Square junkie/hustler connection, the "real thing" that they (especially Burroughs) often tried to emulate.

This article is part of the Beat News series. The next post in the series is Beat News: August 12 1996. The previous post in the series is Beat News: July 23 1996.

Beat News: August 12 1996

Fiction,
News,
Poetry Readings
1. I've mentioned "Wisdom's Maw" before. It's a novel (and a website) by Todd Brendan Fahey about the same real-life characters Tom Wolfe wrote about in the "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test." That book was a work of journalism, but Fahey's book is simply fiction, and this frees him to take us on several interesting tangents.

This article is part of the Beat News series. The next post in the series is Beat News: September 5 1996. The previous post in the series is Beat News: August 8 1996.