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Jazz poet Roger Singer shares a vision of Kerouac on occasion of his 89th birthday The first book I read by Jack Kerouac was The Town and the City. It was his first novel in a long succession of works that followed and numerous books of poems. While

Bertie Marshall provides a sneak preview of his own punk memoir documenting his suburban transformation into Berlin Berlin, Bromley – Bertie Marshall See all books by Bertie Marshall at Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.com THREE

My upstairs neighbors inspired me. Heard ‘em packing up. Getting out. Rent’s late. Work’s slow. They’re fast. Heard ceiling scrape in dream. Woke up. Dark, still dressed. Head full. Power off. Milk lumpy. Sluggish panic. Man, this bites. Towel

Psychoboys is set in the cities of Moscow and Berlin. It tells the story of Rez, a rent boy living on the streets, and his fight for survival in a world of bizarre strangers. He meets a riot of characters – Ms Thing, a transvestite sugar mummy who

Robert Knafo In his short life (1960-1988), Jean-Michel Basquiat came to personify the art scene of the 80s, with its merging of youth culture, money, hype, excess, and self-destruction. And then there was the work, which

SPIKE presents an exclusive extract from this hilarious cigarette obsessed debut novel DAY 1 DR WILLIAM BARCLAY, born 7 March 1936, died 3 March 1994, age 57. Mysterium Magnum. The principle of all generation is separation, he used to say. Distract your

When I was a child I sat an exam. The test was so simple There was no way I could fail. Q1. Describe the taste of the moon. It tastes like Creation I wrote, it has the flavour of starlight. Q2. What colour is Love? Love is the colour of the water a man lost

Long, long ago when everything I was told was believable and the little I knew was less limited than now, I stretched belly down on the grass beside a pond and to the far bank launched a child’s armada. hidA broken fortress of twigs, the paper-tissue

Annalise Bomenblit I saw the best minds of our generation silent before a fluorescent light that screamed like the rainbow sky of the drowned man’s last memory who tried to fight it with pilgrimages at night to food and other scarce suburban treasures

Adam Baron’s infamous, Penthouse-published tale of sex, feminism and chocolate-flavoured genitals My penis made me locally famous. I didn’t find out about it until I got to University. Before then my experience