A NEW BOOK FROM THE AUTHOR OF PANIC GRASS. [City Lights Pocket Poets Series No 24, 1968] – CHARLES UPTON, THEN 18, NOW 76. STUDENT OF LEW WELCH. AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL. A BIG BOOK. GIVING MYSELF AWAY: FROM BEAT GENERATION PROTEGE TO METAPHYSICAL CRITIC. ————————————————————————————————————— These two catalogues are blasts from the past, the pre-digital age. Satori…
BEAT SCENE subscriber Dan Poljak of Pittsburgh reminded me this morning that it was 68 years ago that Jack Kerouac’s novel On the Road was published and shortly after a review, an overwhelmingly positive review, of it appeared in The New York Times. Written by a young journalist Gilbert Millstein, that review changed Kerouac’s…
BEAT SCENE 113 is out NOW…..just back from the printer and am starting to post subscriber copies out now. STARTED AT 4.30 this morning. Tuesday July 29. And who is this young man and what is his connection with a young Jack Kerouac? Find out in this upcoming issue. —————————————————————————————- If you’re going…