The master of "black humor," inspiration for New Journalism and all things gonzo and hip, was also friends with the Beatles, Keith Richards, William Burroughs, ...
Pulp fiction may be fun to think about and the books' covers are a delight, but the contents almost always get it wrong - especially when it comes to the Hippie...
In the spirit of the July 4th holiday, we look backward and forward simultaneously, with a little help from our friends at the New York Public Library and their...
The acclaimed writer and beloved writing teacher’s suicide ten years ago (Sept. 12) shocked his fans and students. The film The End of the Tour, released last y...
A new documentary, Won't You Be My Neighbor?, reveals the revolutionary simplicity of a children’s TV icon who redefined “authenticity” in a way that Sacha Baro...
On the brink of stardom, with help from Michael Nesmith, Mike Love and Glen Campbell, Craig Smith took a different, far darker path, taking the name Maitreya Ka...
Cartoonist Rube Goldberg’s crazy inventions still resonate in the age of smartphones. Goldberg was a Pulitzer Prize winner who was friends with Charlie Chaplin,...
Singer, guitarist and main songwriter for the Remains, Boston’s first and finest rock & roll band, recalls the days when his band played on The Ed Sullivan ...
A talented Beat poet who was a travel companion to Jack Kerouac, Zen buddy to Gary Snyder and Michael McClure and stepfather to Huey Lewis, Lew Welch walked sou...
SNL got all the ink but SCTV was the place for serious comedy in the 1970s. PKM revisits the funniest clips from the Great White North, featuring greats like Jo...
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...
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.
