Legs McNeil talks to Billboard about the book he and Gillian McCain have been working on for 20 years - documenting the late ‘60s California music scene an...
Reissue of This Post-Punk Novelist’s Work Puts Her Back in the Countercultural Conversation Where She Belongs
By Mary Karmelek
If the writer Kathy Acker (19...
This Year Let Wisconsin Death Trip Take You to a Place You’ll Wish You’d Never Gone
By Charles Monagan
“By the end of the nineteenth century, country towns ha...
Richard Boch’s book about the iconic club brings back the glory days of post-punk decadence
“A mattress on the floor, a makeshift shower and some basic third-h...
The Mudd Club in Tribeca had an art gallery curated by Keith Haring, performances by Ginsberg & Burroughs, was frequented by Lou Reed, David Bowie, Johnny T...
Allen Ginsberg likened the Beat Generation to a “boy gang,” yet there were a number of strong women who traveled in Beat circles, whose influence cannot be igno...
Lisa Janssen profiles another favorite Gadabout - Joseph Hansen: author, radio personality, community theater actor, tv show writer, beloved writing teache...
Denis Johnson, the writer most well-known for Jesus' Son, died on May 24, 2017 at age 67
Great writers are not necessarily good storytellers, but when these tw...
There are eight million stories in the naked city, as the saying goes. Over the decades, New York City has been the setting for thousands of such stories: from ...
In this rare, unpublished interview from 2001, Jim Carroll talks about The Basketball Diaries, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Wahlberg, Harmony Korine, Sherman Alexie ...
1. Billion Dollar Baby by Bob Greene (Atheneum)
Columnist Bob Greene travels with the Alice Cooper Band and plays Santa Claus during a Christmas tour and g...
Book Review by Gillian McCain of "The First Rock ‘n’ Roll BODYGUARD" by Alf Weaver with Robert Ashton - If Alf Weaver was still with us (R.I.P) he would be the guy I would want watching my back. Because he’s watched them all, and had “a few good laughs” doing so. Growing up in London, he was friends with the Kray Twins, and kind of fell into the rock & roll business when he started working for a limousine company. ...
Dennis Dunaway, founding member and bass player of the original Alice Cooper, one of the USA's greatest rock & roll groups, today releases his much anticipa...
