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Jack and Allen, in their own words
Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg
The Letters
Edited by Bill Morgan and David Stanford
Viking: 528 pp., $35
"Howl" (1956) and "On the Road" (1957), two works that helped define a time, sprang from two wildly fired, independent imaginations. Few would...Tags: Allen Ginsberg, Columbia University, Jack Kerouac, Colleges and Universities, Education
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Free for All Festival envelops the Echo and Echoplex on Sunday, gives away exclusive mixtape
Pop & HissThe phrase "information wants to be free" is a dubious chestnut often attributed to technology writer Stewart Brand. But though the venerable gadfly had experience with Ken Kesey and the Acid Tests, his adage didn't cover music festivals, which quite........ -
Who is Robert Hilburn? A champion and an advocate
Bob Dylan, dressed for the Grammys in a pewter troubadour's coat and a dandy western tie, arrived backstage to greet the assembled press after winning the album of the year award for 1997, but before the first question he turned to his handlers and asked,...Tags: Staples Center, Nine Inch Nails (music group), Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Danny Elfman
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Whoa dude, it's the Grateful Dead with Washington and Lincoln
Culture MonsterDennis Larkins can be forgiven his feeling of déjà -vu, as he strolls through the new Grateful Dead exhibit at the New York Historical Society. Thirty years ago, he and Peter Barsotti created an iconic poster for the bandâs 1980 shows...... -
Documentary tells full story of Hunter S. Thompson
OF COURSE, there were the drugs. And the drinking. And guns. And more drugs. Given his notorious lifestyle, it can be hard to keep in mind that Hunter S. Thompson was first and foremost a writer, a frontline chronicler of the promise and adventure of...Tags: Death, Drugs and Medicines, Entertainment, Health, Movies
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Theater figures
Theater figures Lawrence Roman, 86; best known for writing the hit Broadway play "Under the Yum-Yum Tree" and for adapting the farce into the 1963 movie (May 18) Paul Sills, 80; legendary improvisational director and teacher co-founded the Compass...Tags: Tony Awards, Fiction, Television, Entertainment, Music Theater
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The Western sage
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe California writer Wallace Stegner is well known to readers for novels such as "Angle of Repose" and "Crossing to Safety." But Stegner had another dimension, as an advocate for a literary West -- especially the West of mountains and desert and big...Tags: Ronald Reagan, University of California, Jack Kerouac, Mark Twain, Folklore and Mythology
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Dale Wasserman dies at 94; playwright best known for 'Man of La Mancha'
Dale Wasserman, a playwright best known for writing the book for the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical "Man of La Mancha" and the stage version of Ken Kesey's novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," has died. He was 94. Wasserman died Sunday of...Tags: Death, John Gay, Drama (genre), Health, Joe Darion
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'O the Clear Moment' by Ed McClanahan
ED MCCLANAHAN may be the most unlikely counterculture writer of them all. A Kentucky native, he went to Stanford University in 1962 as a Stegner Fellow, part of a class that included Ken Kesey, Tillie Olson, Larry McMurtry and Robert Stone. He set his...Tags: Book, Death, Education, Robert Stone, Stanford University
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'The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde' edited by David W. Bernstein
The San Francisco
Tape Music Center
1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde
Edited by David W. Bernstein
University of California Press/Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: 336 pp., $65
THERE was a time when the zeitgeist used to get bashed about...Tags: University of California, Education, Marcel Duchamp, Music Industry, Alban Berg
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Where's Weldon?
The poet Weldon Kees was born in Beatrice, Neb., in 1914, though what's best known about him is that on July 18, 1955, his car was found abandoned with the keys still in the ignition in a parking lot on the Marin County side of the Golden Gate Bridge....Tags: Crimes, Death, W.H. Auden, Fiction, Poetry
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'Stories Done: Writings on the 1960s and Its Discontents' by Mikal Gilmore
The revolution -- the one that took place in the 1960s -- was in fact televised. The music, the antiwar movement, the drug culture and the social upheaval of the era became major benefactors of the first wave of saturation media coverage. To the...Tags: Allen Ginsberg, Johnny Cash, Death, Jack Kerouac, Drugs and Medicines
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