WE NEVER LEARN: GUNK PUNK IN THE 1990S
Eric Davidson, front man of the Ohio-based New Bomb Turks, is equally adept at rocking, rolling and writing....
Books
KEROUAC: ON THE VERGE OF FAME
After hand-delivering the final manuscript of On the Road to Viking Press in Jan. 1957, Jack Kerouac spent...
DOCTOR SAX AND THE GREAT WORLD SNAKE: KEROUAC’S FORGOTTEN OPUS
Written in Mexico in 1952 but not published until 1959, Dr. Sax is Jack Kerouac’s most enigmatic novel....
JACK KEROUAC AT 100: HIS MAGICAL JUKEBOX
Music was the food that fueled Jack Kerouac’s soul, drove his writing and brought him his rare moments...
GYPSY ROSE LEE: WOMAN OF MANY TALENTS
Gypsy Rose Lee will forever be associated with Gypsy, the musical adapted from her own memoir by Arthur...
R.I.P EVE BABITZ: THE QUINTESSENTIAL L.A. WOMAN
When Eve Babitz died on December 17, the light dimmed a bit in Los Angeles, the city she...
THE GUN CLUB DOWN UNDER
Gun Club, led by the mercurial Jeffrey Lee Pierce, were booked for a month-long tour of Australia in late...
ISABELLE EBERHARDT: RIMBAUD’S ‘DAUGHTER’
Patti Smith championed her, Paul Bowles translated her writings into English, but Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) may be best...
TEA IN THE SAHARA WITH PAUL BOWLES
While a college student on a semester abroad in Spain, Ken Krayeske made a quixotic trip to Morocco...
JOHN LURIE AND THE HISTORY OF BONES
Writer, musician, actor and artist John Lurie is at the center of many indelible images from a certain...
JACKET WEATHER: A LEFT-FIELD, PUNK-STEEPED NEW YORK CITY LOVE STORY BY MIKE DECAPITE
Mike DeCapite’s writerly trajectory reads like a punk band’s Horatio Alger story: Upon arrival in NYC, his first...
PAUL WILLIAMS: FROM CRAWDADDY! TO PHILIP K. DICK
Paul Williams was among the first writers to take rock ‘n’ roll seriously as an art form. He...
SAN FRANCISCO: A HISTORY IN ROCK AND ROLL
Mike Katz and Crispin Kott, self-described “rock and roll soulmates,” have done it again. With the recently published...
SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY: WHY MARIANNE FAITHFULL MATTERS
Marianne Faithfull has had a long, fascinating career since her days as the ‘It Girl’ of the Swingin’...