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Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet, painter, activist, and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers turned 100 years old today. Ferlinghetti is maybe best known for “A Coney Island of the Mind” and as publisher of the beat poets, which included being arrested for publishing Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and the ensuing First Ammendment trial. My favorite work …
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Favorite people are so often problematic people, because they’re.. people Never was a giant William S. Burroughs fan myself. I can recognize Naked Lunch as the iconic effort that it is, but it didn’t really work for me. (I prefer the band.) Leela Ginelle for Bitch Magazine reminds us that William S. Burroughs killed his wife, a …
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