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Dr David Stephen Calonne has written and edited a number of books around Beat-era American literature with a particular focus on Charles Bukowski. The recent collection More Notes of a Dirty Old Man will soon be followed by an appraisal for Reaktion’s

Carrying the torch passed on by Bukowski and Hubert Selby Jr, for many Dan Fante is America’s most vital writer. Interview by Declan Tan Dan Fante is one of the last surviving writers of his generation that could be called a “maverick”. Having spent

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

Nathan Cain The Beat Hotel – Barry Miles See all books by Barry Miles at Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.com 9 rue Git-le-Coeur is an address that looms large in the literary landscape of the last half of the twentieth century.

Nathan Cain Last Words – William Burroughs See all books by William Burroughs at Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.com The works of William Seward Burroughs have always, even among those who think themselves the hippest of the hip, been considered