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Beat News: January 2006

by Levi Asher on Friday, January 13, 2006 04:34 pm
Beat Generation, Film, Summer Of Love
1. I used to be totally up on Beat Generation news, but lately I have go to places like Syntax of Things to get my updates. (Anything you need to know about literary state quarters, though, I'm your go-to guy).
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Beat News: July 22 2001

by Levi Asher on Sunday, July 22, 2001 12:09 pm
Beat Generation, Events, LitKicks, News
Okay ... I just got back from an amazing weekend in Northport, Long Island hanging around with a bunch of people performing at this event, a four-city marathon reading of Kerouac's novel 'Big Sur'. I got to spend a lot of time talking with Carolyn Cassady, who I'd never met before, and who had flown in from London just for this gathering.
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Beat News: January 18 2001

by Levi Asher on Thursday, January 18, 2001 01:07 pm
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Poet Gregory Corso died last night at his daughter Sherri's home in Minneapolis. Go here for more ...


 
 
 
 
 

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Beat News: January 15 2001

by Levi Asher on Monday, January 15, 2001 01:03 pm
Internet Culture, LitKicks, Technology
I'm happy to present an addition to this site that has been a long time coming. As my longtime readers know, there has never been a way to directly contribute to this site. When I first launched Literary Kicks six and a half years ago, my plan was to invite contributions by email. I would review these contributions, edit them, convert them to HTML -- simple as that. This not-so-brilliant plan crash-landed about two years later.
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Beat News: December 14 2000

by Levi Asher on Thursday, December 14, 2000 12:57 pm
Beat Generation, Film, Music, New York City, Politics, Religion, Technology
1. I've been hearing the hype about e-books for a while. Surprisingly enough, I think I'm turning into a believer.

The first e-book to catch my attention was 'The Plant' at Stephen King's website. I downloaded the first couple of chapters, which were free at the time, and I had fun reading them.

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Beat News: September 7 2000

by Levi Asher on Thursday, September 7, 2000 11:39 am
Beat Generation, Internet Culture, Nature, News, Poetry
Time to report on some interesting new books. First up are two venerable poets, both publishing new works in unusual formats. Robert Creeley has collected the results of an email correspondence with a group of SUNY Buffalo poetry students into a fresh and sophisticated short volume, Day Book of a Virtual Poet.
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Beat News: June 16 2000

by Levi Asher on Friday, June 16, 2000 11:30 am
British, Classics, Comedy, Film, Internet Culture, Jazz Age, Psychology, Technology
News for Summer 2000: one rave review, and one complaint.

1. I just saw the new movie version of "Hamlet," starring Ethan Hawke and directed by Michael Almereyda. Folks ... this movie is a masterpiece.

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Beat News: April 14 2000

by Levi Asher on Friday, April 14, 2000 11:25 am
LitKicks, News, Personal, Politics, Summer Of Love, Tributes
Sorry I've been gone so long. I know some people think I died; I assure you this is not true.

It is true, though, that I've been avoiding my responsibilities as owner of this site. I've been going through a sort of dark night of the soul recently, and dealing with some heavy things in my life that I don't want to talk too much about, except to put it in brief: my marriage broke up last year, around the beginning of September. Meg and I are both doing fine, and the kids are too.

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Beat News: December 15 1999

by Levi Asher on Wednesday, December 15, 1999 12:21 pm
Comix, Fiction, LitKicks, Postmodernism, Tributes
The new millennium is coming and ... novelist Joseph Heller has died. I recently reread Heller's classic World War II black comedy "Catch-22", and found it funny and rewarding -- a cry against conformist thinking that stands alongside Kafka's "The Castle" and Orwell's "1984" and also seemed very much related to Ken Kesey's contemporaneous "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest".
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Beat News: November 19 1999

by Levi Asher on Friday, November 19, 1999 12:19 pm
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The novelist Paul Bowles has died of a heart attack at the age of 88. He had earlier this month been taken to a hospital in Tangier where he had lived since 1947. Paul Bowles, an elegant expatriate with a refreshing tolerance for human differences and frailties, was a friend and inspiration to many of the younger Beat writers, like William S.
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