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Archive By Year

January 2002

• George Orwell by Jay Meija on January 2, 2002
• Literary Kicks Style Guide by Levi Asher on January 3, 2002
• Russian Romantic Poet Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov, 1814-1840 by Alex Malina on January 5, 2002
• Aleksandr Yashin, Poetry and Life by Alex Malina on January 6, 2002
• Shalamov, Tradgedy and Poetry by Alex Malina on January 6, 2002
• Ilya Ehrenburg, Life and Poems by Alex Malina on January 6, 2002
• Cherry Valley Sunday by George Wallace on January 11, 2002
• The Youth and Death of Mira Lohvitskaya by Alex Malina on January 11, 2002
• Remembering Jack Micheline by Ray Freed on January 12, 2002
• Basho: Lifeline by Kevin Kizer on January 13, 2002
• L’article en Stephane Mallarme by Gregory Severance on January 28, 2002

February 2002

• Proust and Nabokov Look at Romantic Love by G. Alstrom on February 4, 2002
• Miami Beach Elegy by Levi Asher on February 16, 2002
• Zora Neale Hurston (2 comments) by eggnoize on February 19, 2002

March 2002

• On Western Haiku (1 comment) by Cor van den Heuvel on March 2, 2002
• Ron Whitehead by David Minton on March 17, 2002

April 2002

• The Soviet Underground and the Bard Generation by Alex Malina on April 1, 2002
• Soviet Underground - Part 2 by Alex Malina on April 1, 2002
• Soviet Underground - Part 3 by Alex Malina on April 1, 2002
• Practicing Buddhism as a Feminist Christian by Jolee Moffett on April 12, 2002
• Introduction to Chinese Poetry (300BC-1100AD) by Kevin Kizer on April 21, 2002
• Chinese Poetry: Book of Odes by Kevin Kizer on April 21, 2002
• Chinese Poetry: Li Po (701-762) by Kevin Kizer on April 21, 2002
• This is Marriage? The Beat Generation and Gregory Corso’s ‘Marriage’ by Sarah Duff on April 22, 2002
• Lit Kicks Spring Peace Poetry Happening by Levi Asher on April 30, 2002

June 2002

• Fernando Pessoa by aifos on June 3, 2002
• Robert Southey by Bill Ectric on June 5, 2002
• Bill Ectric on Walden by Bill Ectric on June 12, 2002
• The Nudes of God and Doctor James Barfoot by honeydu on June 15, 2002
• It’s Just a Book, for Chrissakes by dobbin on June 16, 2002
• Gertrude Stein by novalark on June 18, 2002
• Jean Cocteau by novalark on June 18, 2002
• F.Scott Fitzgerald by novalark on June 18, 2002
• Lewis Carroll by novalark on June 18, 2002
• How To Effect Change in the Current Political Climate by Bohemian Philosopher on June 20, 2002
• Paris Review’s ‘Beat Writers at Work’ by Kristessa on June 27, 2002
• Bret Easton Ellis by Carly Kocurek on June 29, 2002

July 2002

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Jolee Moffett on July 5, 2002
• Rudyard Kipling by slurpy on July 11, 2002
• Edgar Allan Poe by slurpy on July 12, 2002
• Ted Hughes by slurpy on July 15, 2002
• Nathaniel Hawthorne by slurpy on July 19, 2002
• Anton Chekhov by slurpy on July 20, 2002
• Ayn Rand and Objectivism by shaktiyugi on July 26, 2002
• Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me by Philip Harris on July 27, 2002

August 2002

• Kubla Khan by kerouacdylan on August 6, 2002
• Larry Rivers by Levi Asher on August 16, 2002
• LitKicks August Poetry Happening by Caryn Thurman on August 20, 2002
• Terry Nation by slurpy on August 21, 2002
• Animal Farm: A Beast Fable for Our Beastly Times by Jay Meija on August 26, 2002
• Antonin Artaud by Andrew Lundwall on August 30, 2002

September 2002

• Nikolai Gogol by slurpy on September 11, 2002
• Poetry in the Sikh Tradition by durlabh on September 11, 2002
• Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev by slurpy on September 15, 2002
• Leo Tolstoy by slurpy on September 17, 2002
• Fyodor Dostoevsky by Levi Asher on September 28, 2002
• Chuck Palahniuk by Niblo Crosby on September 28, 2002
• Jay McInerney by Niblo Crosby on September 28, 2002
• On Being Beloved (for Raymond Carver) by Rennie Lorca on September 29, 2002
• Dorothy Parker by Caryn Thurman on September 30, 2002

October 2002

• Edvard Munch by mudshark on October 6, 2002
• James Joyce by Jay Meija on October 6, 2002
• Wulf Zendik by zwarrior on October 10, 2002
• A Quest Among the Bewildered by zwarrior on October 10, 2002
• Their Own Press, Their Own Public: Editing & Promoting the Beat Generation by pathwise on October 12, 2002
• The Breakfast Club by Levi Asher on October 15, 2002
• Ann Beattie by Levi Asher on October 15, 2002
• Irvine Welsh by Niblo Crosby on October 15, 2002
• Paul Auster by Levi Asher on October 15, 2002
• Nick McDonell’s Twelve by Liz Stein on October 21, 2002
• Henry James by Levi Asher on October 22, 2002

November 2002

• Anais Nin by nocturne 17 on November 5, 2002
• London Fields by nocturne 17 on November 6, 2002
• Linotte: Reflections on the Adolescent Diary of Anais Nin by nocturne 17 on November 7, 2002
• Mikhail Bulgakov by asmadeus on November 12, 2002
• Flannery O’Connor by Jamelah Earle on November 12, 2002
• Stephen Daedalus: Saint of Sin by nocturne 17 on November 14, 2002
• Nasal Ethics: Midnight’s Children by nocturne 17 on November 14, 2002
• Sylvia Plath by Caryn Thurman on November 14, 2002
• A Spy In The House Of Love by nocturne 17 on November 14, 2002
• An Interview With Diane DiPrima by Joseph Matheny on November 15, 2002
• The Short Happy Death of Albert Camus by Jay Meija on November 16, 2002
• Anthony Burgess by crebbin on November 17, 2002
• Beat Inc. and the Dignity of Richard Brautigan by Darran Anderson on November 17, 2002
• Chinua Achebe: My Spirit Come Fight for Me (1 comment) by Juliana Harris on November 18, 2002
• J. G. Ballard by asmadeus on November 18, 2002
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez by Jim MacDiarmid on November 25, 2002
• Harry Crosby by Allez33 on November 27, 2002

December 2002

• Richard Powers: The Time of Our Singing by Jenny Southlynn on December 3, 2002
• Han Shan by Jim MacDiarmid on December 4, 2002
• Why I Am Playing The Bowery Poetry Club by David Amram on December 5, 2002
• LitKicks BongoBeat Wintertime Poetry Happening (1 comment) by Jamelah Earle on December 16, 2002
• Tennessee Williams by Philip Harris on December 20, 2002
• Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience by Bill Ectric on December 22, 2002
• James Baldwin by slurpy on December 28, 2002

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