Jolie Holland - "Mexico City" video

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Mein jüngster Sohn hat für den Englischunterricht einen Text über Richard Brautigans Shortstory "The greyhound tragedy" schreiben dürfen...es ist bildungstechnisch doch noch nicht alles verloren...und als #sozialistischerRealismus Geschädigter, der die Amis erst Anfang der 90iger, mit über 20 durchgeackert hat, bin ich schon ein wenig neidisch... #beatgeneration #brautigan #ontheroad #wordisvirus #amerikanischeliteratur #burroughs #WilliamCarlosWilliams

A “very significant” unpublished story by Jack Kerouac described as “a lost chapter of the On the Road saga” has been discovered after languishing in the files of an assassinated Mafia crime boss for at least 40 years.

The two-page typewritten manuscript signed by Kerouac in green ink is titled The Holy, Beat, and Crazy Next Thing and is dated 15 April 1957, five months before his classic of beat literature, On the Road, was published.

It was discovered last year during the disposal of items owned by Paul Castellano, who ran the feared Gambino crime family in New York from 1976 until he was murdered in a hail of gunfire on 16 December 1985.

It is not known how or when Castellano acquired the Kerouac story. According to the company that bought it from his estate, Your Own Museum, it is thought to have originally been given to a San Francisco poet in the beat generation circle. The company said: “It has remained in private hands, meticulously preserved, for over six decades. It is a direct, tangible link to the moment the beat generation exploded into the American consciousness.

~The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/10/very-significant-jack-kerouac-story-discovered-after-mafia-boss-auction

#BeatGeneration

Polyend Play: Make Insane Beats And Songs In Minutes

https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/n9zdoeUQU6v7bDZnaczdDZ

Polyend Play: Make Insane Beats And Songs In Minutes

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State Library Victoria has digitised the Vali Myers archive, so you can come in and see her work in the Creative Acts exhibition, or check out the archive online
https://findingaids.slv.vic.gov.au/repositories/5/resources/677/digital_only

#Art #Surrealism #BeatGeneration #Hippies #1960s

Collection: Vali Myers archive | State Library Victoria

Je lis l'excellente traduction de l'édition bilingue du recueil "drive" de Hettie Jones de Florentine Rey et Franck Loiseau.
Si j'admire la démarche réussie de rendre le texte original, l'éclairer & le compléter, c'est aussi la 1e fois que je me dis de manière consistante que j'aurais fait autrement. Est ce par je manque d'expérience ou juste une différence de démarche ? #poesie #traduction #TraduisLaTraduction #hettiejones #beatgeneration #anglais #traductologie #livres #autrices #PoésieEngagée
Peux pas croire que ce bouquin ait suscité un tel engouement… Je veux bien lui reconnaître un intérêt documentaire (#beatgeneration). Et par ailleurs l’édition est vraiment belle. Mais pas de qualités littéraires dans ces lettres. Et ce mec était un monstre d’égoïsme 😒 Voire carrément flippant parfois !

Stanford University: Stanford acquires an unseen piece of Beat Generation history. “The archives of Al Aronowitz, a journalist known for his ‘street-level’ coverage of the seminal poets and musicians of the 1950s and ’60s, offer scholars a new lens on mid-20th-century counterculture.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/13/stanford-university-stanford-acquires-an-unseen-piece-of-beat-generation-history/

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Last week's book:
El hombre invisible
by Barry Miles

#book #WilliamSBurroughs #beatgeneration #biography