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IN RIOT DAYS, PUSSY RIOT SHOWS US THAT PUNK IS JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR PROTEST

Mary Karmelek·November 29, 2017

Maria Alyokhina’s Riot Days bears witness to the hardships endured by those who dare oppose the ruling powers,...

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LEGS MCNEIL DISCUSSES HIS & GILLIAN MCCAIN’S NEW BOOK ABOUT CHARLES MANSON AND THE 60’S

PKM Editor·November 27, 2017

Legs McNeil talks to Billboard about the book he and Gillian McCain have been working on for 20...

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BLOOD AND GUTS: THE REBIRTH OF KATHY ACKER

Mary Karmelek·November 1, 2017

Reissue of This Post-Punk Novelist’s Work Puts Her Back in the Countercultural Conversation Where She Belongs By Mary...

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HALLOWEEN HORROR FROM REAL AMERICAN LIFE

Charles Monagan·October 30, 2017

This Year Let Wisconsin Death Trip Take You to a Place You’ll Wish You’d Never Gone By Charles...

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Here’s Mudd Club in Your Eye

Amy Haben·October 21, 2017

Richard Boch’s book about the iconic club brings back the glory days of post-punk decadence “A mattress on...

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SCENE OF THE CRIME: AN INTERVIEW WITH THE MUDD CLUB’S RICHARD BOCH

Todd McGovern·September 11, 2017

The Mudd Club in Tribeca had an art gallery curated by Keith Haring, performances by Ginsberg & Burroughs,...

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THE BEAT GENERATION WAS NOT JUST A BOYS’ CLUB

Alan Bisbort·August 10, 2017

Allen Ginsberg likened the Beat Generation to a “boy gang,” yet there were a number of strong women,...

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MY FAVORITE GADABOUT #3: GAY PRIDE EDITION, JOSEPH HANSEN

Lisa Janssen·July 26, 2017

Lisa Janssen profiles another favorite Gadabout – Joseph Hansen: author, radio personality, community theater actor, tv show writer, beloved...

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DENIS JOHNSON, AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF ‘JESUS’ SON’ AND ‘TREE OF SMOKE’ HAS DIED

Todd McGovern·May 26, 2017

Denis Johnson, the writer most well-known for Jesus’ Son, died on May 24, 2017 at age 67 Great...

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INTERVIEW WITH TERRY MCCOY OF ST. MARK’S BOOKS!

Amy Haben·December 30, 2015

Amy Haben interviews one of the Founders of St. Mark's Books shortly before their 2016 closing.

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Legs McNeil’s List of the Ten Best Rock & Roll Books of All Time!

Legs McNeil·November 17, 2015

1. Billion Dollar Baby by Bob Greene (Atheneum) Columnist Bob Greene travels with the Alice Cooper Band and...

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BOOK REVIEW: The First Rock & Roll BODYGUARD

Gillian McCain·October 22, 2015

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.

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Dennis Dunaway’s book released today!

PKM Editor·June 9, 2015

Dennis Dunaway, founding member and bass player of the original Alice Cooper, one of the USA’s greatest rock...

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PLEASE READ ME: Curtis Harrington

PKM Editor·April 10, 2013

Nice Guys Don’t Work In Hollywood: The Adventures of an Aesthete in the Movie Business by Curtis Harrington (Drag City, paper, 272 pp.). Review by James Marshall Fans of esoteric film trash will be delighted to know that before passing director Curtis Harrington (1926-2007) left us with this dirt-filled and conversationally written volume about his five decades in Hollywood and beyond.

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Jack Kerouac based his muse/lover “Mardou Fox” in The Subterraneans on Alene Lee, a mixed race (Black/Cherokee) bohemian writer and intellectual who was a part of the NYC Beat circle of Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Lucien Carr. Despite her intimate connection to these writers, the real Alene Lee is nowhere to be found in most accounts and biographies—partly due to her own reticence to speak. Erika Blair did some digging and presents a more rounded portrait of this fascinating woman. Read more!

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SAM CUTLER: LIFE WITH THE STONES, THE DEAD & OTHER WONDERFUL REPROBATES

ALL THE RAJ: HOW ‘NORWEGIAN WOOD’ UNLEASHED THE ‘INDIAN INVASION’

THE KNACK … AND HOW TO GET IT: AN INTERVIEW WITH PRESCOTT NILES

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IN RIOT DAYS, PUSSY RIOT SHOWS US THAT PUNK IS JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR PROTEST

LEGS MCNEIL DISCUSSES HIS & GILLIAN MCCAIN’S NEW BOOK ABOUT CHARLES MANSON AND THE 60’S

BLOOD AND GUTS: THE REBIRTH OF KATHY ACKER

HALLOWEEN HORROR FROM REAL AMERICAN LIFE

Here’s Mudd Club in Your Eye

SCENE OF THE CRIME: AN INTERVIEW WITH THE MUDD CLUB’S RICHARD BOCH

THE BEAT GENERATION WAS NOT JUST A BOYS’ CLUB

MY FAVORITE GADABOUT #3: GAY PRIDE EDITION, JOSEPH HANSEN

DENIS JOHNSON, AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF ‘JESUS’ SON’ AND ‘TREE OF SMOKE’ HAS DIED

INTERVIEW WITH TERRY MCCOY OF ST. MARK’S BOOKS!

Legs McNeil’s List of the Ten Best Rock & Roll Books of All Time!

BOOK REVIEW: The First Rock & Roll BODYGUARD

Dennis Dunaway’s book released today!

PLEASE READ ME: Curtis Harrington

SAM CUTLER: LIFE WITH THE STONES, THE DEAD & OTHER WONDERFUL REPROBATES

ALL THE RAJ: HOW ‘NORWEGIAN WOOD’ UNLEASHED THE ‘INDIAN INVASION’

THE KNACK … AND HOW TO GET IT: AN INTERVIEW WITH PRESCOTT NILES

POLY STYRENE: BREAKING DOWN THE BONDAGE

WE NEVER LEARN: GUNK PUNK IN THE 1990S