The era of theAlan Ginsburg's Howl, the East Village Other and The Fugs is evoked here by Alex Abramovich, an occasional contributor to the London Review of Books blog. - GWC
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah « LRB blog
by Alex Abramovich
Tuli Kupferberg and Ed Sanders met in New York City in 1962, in front of the Charles Theater, two blocks north of Tompkins Square Park. Kupferberg was selling issues of Birth, a mimeographed publication he’d started in the 1950s. Sanders, who’d just launched his own mimeographed magazine, knew a few things about him. ‘I’d seen his picture in a number of books,’ Sanders later recalled. ‘I learned a little bit later that he was the guy “who’d jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge”, as described in Howl. (Actually it was the Manhattan Bridge.) I later asked him why. He replied, “I wasn’t being loved enough.”’
U.S. Treasury Targets Iran’s Shadow Fleet with New Sanctions
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The United States Department of the Treasury has announced new sanctions
targeting four entities and three vessels involved in Iran’s petroleum and
petroch...
14 hours ago
