Mike DeCapite’s writerly trajectory reads like a punk band’s Horatio Alger story: Upon arrival in NYC, his first writings were published by Richard Hell, t...
Paul Williams was among the first writers to take rock ‘n’ roll seriously as an art form. He preached that gospel in Crawdaddy!, a magazine he co-founded as a ...
Because he was often seen as a character in one of Kerouac’s writings, Gregory Corso has been given second billing from the main Beat pantheon of Kerouac, Ginsb...
Search & Destroy, a visually arresting San Francisco punk zine, began publishing in 1976, and quickly set a standard for D.I.Y. graphics and attitude. Takin...
Countercultural anthropologist and founding member of Blue Cheer, V. Vale has documented the 1970s San Francisco punk scene and explored the subcultures of indu...
The longtime publishing insider and agent Sterling Lord is still keeping the Beat flames burning for Kerouac, Ferlinghetti and Kesey. PKM's Benito Vila spent a ...
As the groundbreaking women’s lifestyle magazine and website enter their 26th year, the nation lurches toward some dystopian sexist right-wing fantasy. Happily,...
Naked shots of David Cassidy next to quizzes that asked the girl readership “How Far Out Are You?” made this 1970s magazine a “Cosmopolitan for teenagers”.
Sta...
The Mad genius (in more ways than one!) kept going after parting company with William Gaines, creating other bastions of enduring satire, cartoons and humor in ...
Anaïs Nin's diaries told of an independent, bohemian woman on a sensual and artistic journey - carousing with expats in Paris in the 30s and Greenwich Village’s...
Erotica imprints such as Olympia Press gave many authors, including Fran Lebowitz, Diane di Prima and Roald Dahl early career boosts: writing pornography under ...
