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Howl on Trial

The Battle for Free Expression

Bill Morgan

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Howl and Other Poems, with nearly 1,000,000 copies in print, City Lights presents the story of editing, publishing, and defending the landmark poem...

The Outlaw Bible of American Literature

Alan Kaufman

650 pages of the history of underground literature. From William S Burroughs to DMX, Patti Smith to Boxcar Bertha. Plus Jack Kerouac, Ray Bradbury, Norman Mailer, Lou Reed, Hunter S Thompson, Henry...

(An Open Entrance To The Shut Palace Of) Wrong Numbers

Franklin Rosemont

Like everyone else, you dial and receive Wrong Numbers. But what do you make of them? And what do they make of you? What do these calls, universally regarded as irritating, tell us about the...

I Spit On Your Graves

Boris Vian

Published in Paris in 1946 as a hardboiled thriller loaded with sex and blood, allegedly censored in the US and 'translated' ito French - I Spit On Your Graves was both a pure mystification, and...

Hobohemia

Emma Goldman, Lucy Parsons, Ben Reitman & Other Agitators & Outsiders In 1920s/30s Chicago

Frank O. Beck

From the 1910s through the Depression 30s, when Chicago was the undisputed hobo capital of the United States, a small north side neighborhood know as Towertown was the vital center of an...

The Relevance Of Rexroth

Ken Knabb

A biography of poet, anarchist, wobbly and pioneer of the Beat movement Kenneth Rexroth and analysis of his work by noted American situationist Ken Knabb. Rexroth lead a fascinating life that wound...

Burroughs Live

The Collected Interviews Of William S Burroughs 1960-1997

William S. Burroughs

Burroughs Live gathers all the interviews, both published and unpublished, given by WSB, as well as conversations with well-known writers, artists and musicians, such as Tenessee Williams, Timothy...

Hobohemia

Emma Goldman, Lucy Parsons, Ben Reitman & Other Agitators & Outsiders in 1920s/30s Chicago

Frank O. Beck

From the 1910s through the Depression 30s, when Chicago was the undisputed hobo capital of the United States, a small north side neighborhood known as Towertown was the vital center of an...

Surrealist Experiences

1001 Drawings, 221 Midnights

Penelope Rosemont

Penelope Rosemont's first book of articles and essays. It includes nearly two dozen texts originally published in surrealist journals from 1970 through the 90s, plus eleven that appear here for the...