Fuck obscenity!: Live footage of The Fugs performing at Cleveland free speech benefit,1967
I thought I’d seen every frame of Fugs’ film footage that exists on the worldwide web… but I guess not. Here’s something totally new to…
Literature
A Dangerous Minds exclusive: Previously unpublished interview with Allen Ginsberg
In 1977, Michael Rectenwald was a disenchanted pre-med student with a secret passion for poetry–Allen Ginsberg and his influences in particular. After a couple of…
Paul Thomas Anderson: David Foster Wallace was ‘the first teacher I fell in love with’
Two days ago Marc Maron’s WTF interview with Paul Thomas Anderson, who is promoting his new Thomas Pynchon adaptation Inherent Vice was posted, and buried…
Picasso’s poetry: Painting with words
Pablo Picasso’s first attempt at poetry was a brief thank you note to the poet Guillaume Apollinaire written in French sometime around 1906. Picasso did…
‘Birdbrain’: Allen Ginsberg’s Buddhist punk single, 1981
Most of Allen Ginsberg’s recorded music consists of the poet chanting to the accompaniment of his harmonium. While I enjoy the mantras, original folk songs…
Philip K. Dick on sex between humans and androids
In 1981, Philip K. Dick discussed the ideas and themes behind his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? in an interview with author Paul…
The creepy fantasies that inspired John Fowles’ novel ‘The Collector’
John Fowles was a 37-year-old school teacher when his first novel The Collector was published in 1963. Though Fowles had been writing for fifteen years…
The doodly Picasso faces of Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer’s admiration for Pablo Picasso is well known; in 1995 he published a book, Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man: An Interpretive Biography…
Ernest Hemingway’s reading list for a young writer, 1934
In 1934, a young student Arnold Samuelson read Ernest Hemingway’s short story “One Trip Across.” Inspired by what he had read, the 22-year-old decided to…