Orson Welles' ambitious movie version of Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness could have been the greatest American film never made
Orson Welles...
After Thompson's first book, Hell’s Angels, was published, his publicity junket led to some bizarre and downright blood-boiling TV
Hunter S. Thompson was ...
Charles Bukowski, the “Dirty Old Man” of literature, died 24 years ago today. We bring you 24 or so reasons to revisit the master of literary disaster.
Looking...
In 1966, the Rolling Stones and Marianne Faithfull were set to create the soundtrack for and play youth gang members in a movie based on the novel Only Lovers L...
"We must either love each other, or we must die." In 1964, two 60-second political TV spots forever changed the tone of American politics, pointing the way towa...
The poet Ezra Pound may have been a crazy old man, but does that cancel out his fascism or his treason?
When I first started working at the Library of Congress...
Chilean film director Alejandro Jodorowsky's version of the movie Dune had a cast and crew lined up that included H.R. Giger, Salvador Dali, Mick Jagger, David ...
Though known as a punk rock pioneer, Richard Hell picked up the pen long before he picked up the bass guitar. Richard talks to PKM about his upcoming retrospect...
Slim Gaillard and Lord Buckley helped the King of the Beats locate his inner hipster
Before the Beats jumped into the musical deep end, two stand-up jazz artis...
The second-best thing to a PKM Book Club would be a David Bowie Book Club. Since the former doesn’t exist, we recommend the latter.
We can already see the rubb...
Tonya Harding never won an Olympic medal and Barbara Graham was snuffed in the gas chamber at San Quentin but both women knew one of America's darkest secrets
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50 years ago, The Doors’ singer was maced backstage by the cops and then arrested while performing - we take a look at the events that led to the arrest, includ...
PKM Is Proud To Announce The First Recipient Of Our Annual Turkey Award, Celebrating Epic Artistic Disasters, Goes To Tommy Wiseau’s The Room
Thanksgiving with...
How Groovy Gurus and Other Avatars of Enlightenment Shaped the Beatles, the Beach Boys, the Who and others
On Jan. 13, 1968, an episode of the Mel Books-Buck H...
Alan Bisbort is the Editor of PleaseKillMe.com, as well as a freelance writer and a collage artist. He currently teaches a course called Paper Bullets: Propaganda in American History at UConn-Waterbury and is working on a book by that title, to be published in 2018. He’s the author of numerous books, including Beatniks: A Guide to an American Subculture and Rhino’s Psychedelic Trip.
