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. Coast Guard Detains MSC Cruise Ship in Miami
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The U.S. Coast Guard has detained the cruise ship MSC Poesia at PortMiami,
forcing MSC Cruises to cancel an 11-night Caribbean voyage after the vessel
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