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
by eggnoize on February 19, 2002

March 2002

• On Western Haiku
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 19, 2002

• Lewis Carroll
by novalark on June 19, 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 16, 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 16, 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
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
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

April 1993: CERN Opens the Web

by Levi Asher Thursday, May 2, 2013 07:21 am

First page of original Berners-Lee WWW Proposal

All spring and summer, we'll be hovering over the 20th anniversary of the World Wide Web's breakthrough into mass popularity. This week presents another possible "birthday" date for the WWW craze ...

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E. L. Konigsburg's Mixed-Up Files

by Levi Asher Sunday, April 21, 2013 06:58 pm

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

E. L. Konigsburg, author of "From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler", has died at the age of 83 ...

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Action Poetry: Spring 2013

by Levi Asher Tuesday, March 19, 2013 10:15 pm

Litkicks Action Poetry Spring 2013

It's springtime! How about writing a poem?

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The Great Lost Rock Memoir: The Autobiography by Chuck Berry

by Levi Asher Sunday, March 17, 2013 06:42 pm

Chuck Berry in concert in 1975

It's fitting that the guy who singlehandedly invented rock and roll when he recorded a song called "Mabellene" at Chess studios in Chicago on May 21, 1955 would later become an early innovator in the rock memoir field.

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J. M. Coetzee, Master of the Enigmatic Novel

by Levi Asher Monday, March 11, 2013 08:43 pm

Childhood of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee (Polish edition)

J. M. Coetzee's newest novel, out in the USA next month, is already causing a stir.

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Our Friend the Literary Hedgehog

by Levi Asher Tuesday, March 5, 2013 08:39 pm

A hedgehog in his natural habitat

There is a line among the fragments of the Greek poet Archilochus which says: 'The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.' ...

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The Great Lost Rock Memoir: Poison Heart by Dee Dee Ramone

by Levi Asher Monday, February 25, 2013 06:10 pm

The Ramones playing Cretin Hop in 1978

"Poison Heart", the pained memoir by Dee Dee Ramone of New York City's seminal punk band The Ramones.

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Yoko Ono, Visionary

by Levi Asher Sunday, February 17, 2013 11:46 pm

A Yoko Ono puzzle piece.

The last time I saw Yoko Ono in concert, which was just a year ago, I was handed a small blue plastic puzzle piece in a small fabric bag as I entered the club ...

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The Great Lost Rock Memoir: All The Rage by Ian McLagan

by Levi Asher Tuesday, February 12, 2013 07:06 pm

Ian McLagan doing the twist with the Small Faces

"All The Rage", a forgotten memoir by the great keyboard player Ian McLagan of the Small Faces.

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Farewell to Clay January

by Levi Asher Wednesday, February 6, 2013 11:38 pm

Clay January in Chelsea

Farewell to an old friend of Litkicks, Clay January, aka "Lightning Rod", of Texas.

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Shakespeare Villain, Found

by Levi Asher Monday, February 4, 2013 08:31 pm

Laurence Olivier as Richard III

The news that the remains of England's King Richard III have been positively identified in a car park in Leicester is a big deal for historians. It's an even bigger deal for Shakespeareans.

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