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09/02/2026

John Lennon died 46 years ago and recently he had a grandchild he never will meet, I hope his Grandchild gets to meet his Uncle Julian and Paul and Ringo, his grandchild has the coolest parents Sean Ono Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl … I hope I live long enough to hear that kids record in 22 years …

08/09/2026

Some books you should read that I have read

John Fante

Ask the Dust
1933 was a bad year
Road to Los Angeles
Dreams from Bunker Hill

Jack Kerouac

On the Road
Dharma Bums
Desolation Angels
The Subterraneans
Visions of Gerard

Henry Miller

Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Capricorn
Sexus

Anais Nin

Spy in the House of Love
Delta of Venus

Knut Hamsun

Hunger
The Wayfarers

John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men
Tortilla Flat
Cannery Row
The Pearl
Travels with Charley

Carson McCullers

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Nathaniel West

Miss Lonelyhearts
Day of the Locust

Raymond Chandler

The Long Goodbye
The Big Sleep

Jim Thompson

Bad Boy
The Rip Off
Roughneck

J D Salinger

Franny and Zooey
Catcher in the Rye
Nine Stories
Seymour an Introduction

F Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby
This Side of Paradise
Tender is the Night
Beautiful and Damned
Stories

William Burroughs

J***y
The Adding Machine
Exterminator
The Cat Inside
Ghost of Chance

Richard Brautigan

The Revenge of the Lawn
The Pill vs Springhill Mining Disaster
Trout fishing in America
In watermelon sugar

T R Peters, Sr.

Education of Tom Webber
Two Weeks in the Forties
Into the Emerald City with Gangster Sunglasses
Van Gogh Portfolio and other poems

Charles Bukowski

Most Beautiful Woman in Town
Love is a Dog from Hell
Roominghouse Madrigals
Burning Water, Drowning in Flame
Tales of Ordinary Madness

Neal Cassady

The First Third
The Joan Anderson Letter
Collected Letters

Jim Carroll

The Basketball Diaries
Downtown Diaries
Fear of Dreaming
Book of Nods

Vladimir Nabokov

Lo**ta
Speak Memory
Stories

George Orwell

1984
Down and Out in Paris and London

Aldous Huxley

Brave New World
Doors of Perception

Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse Five
Cats Cradle

Thomas Wolfe

You Can’t Go Home Again
Look Homeward Angel
The Web and the Rock

James T Farrell

The Studs Lonigan Trilogy

John OHara

Appointment in Samara
Hope of Heaven
Butterfield 8

Dee Dee Ramone

Labotomy

John Kennedy Toole

Confederacy of Dunces

Diane di Prima

Revolutionary Letters
Freddie Poems
Selected poems

Jeffrey Miller

First ones free
The heart is a quarter pounder

Gregory Corso

Gasoline
Happy birthday of death
Long live man
Mindfield
Herald of the Authotonic Spirit

Bob Kaufman

Second April
Golden Sardines
Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness
The ancient rain


Frank O’Hara

Lunch Poems
Meditations in an Emergency
Selected poems

John Weiners

Hotel Wentley Poems
Selected poems

Robert Creeley

For Love
Selected Poems

Charles Olson

Muthologies
Maximus Poems

Allen Ginsberg

HOWL and other poems
Kaddish
Planet News

Lorine Neidecker

The Granite Pail

Mina Loy

The last lunar Baedeker

The lost lunar Baedeker

Ernest Hemingway

A Moveable Feast
Up in Michigan
To Have and Have Not
Collected Stories

Patricia Highsmith

The Talented Mr Ripley

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

100 years of Solitude

Roberto Bolano

The Savage Detectives

David W.

Close to Knives

George Saunders

Civil War in Bad Decline

Edgar Allen Poe

Complete Tales and Poems

Joan Didion

Slouching toward Bethlehem

The White Album

Raymond Carver

fires

Cathedral

Where I am calling from

Norman MacClean

A river runs through it and other stories

Dick Henfige

Subculture: the meaning of style

Ronald Johnson

Radios

Ed Dorn

Abhorrences

Gunslinger

Hello LaJolla

Yellow Lola

12 poems

Stan Brakhage

Film Biographes

Little Black Book
Of film

Film Culture 1962 Brakhage issue

Essential Brakhage

Harry Smith

Think of Self Speaking

Peter Bogdanovich

Allan Dwan

Who the hell wrote it

Who the hell directed it

To be continued

To be cont.

08/06/2026

Some books you should read that I have read

John Fante

Ask the Dust
1933 was a bad year
Road to Los Angeles
Dreams from Bunker Hill

Jack Kerouac

On the Road
Dharma Bums
Desolation Angels
The Subterraneans
Visions of Gerard

Henry Miller

Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Capricorn
Sexus

Anais Nin

Spy in the House of Love
Delta of Venus

Knut Hamsun

Hunger
The Wayfarers

John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men
Tortilla Flat
Cannery Row
The Pearl
Travels with Charley

Carson McCullers

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Nathaniel West

Miss Lonelyhearts
Day of the Locust

Raymond Chandler

The Long Goodbye
The Big Sleep

Jim Thompson

Bad Boy
The Rip Off
Rough Neck
The Alcoholics

David Goodis

Down there
Dark Passage
Moon in the Gutter

J D Salinger

Franny and Zooey
Catcher in the Rye
Nine Stories
Seymour an Introduction

F Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby
This Side of Paradise
Tender is the Night
Beautiful and Damned
Stories

William Burroughs

J***y
The Adding Machine
Exterminator
The Cat Inside
Ghost of Chance

Richard Brautigan

The Revenge of the Lawn
The Pill vs Springhill Mining Disaster
Trout fishing in America
In watermelon sugar

T R Peters, Sr.

Education of Tom Webber
Two Weeks in the Forties
Into the Emerald City with Gangster Sunglasses
Van Gogh Portfolio and other poems

Charles Bukowski

Most Beautiful Woman in Town
Love is a Dog from Hell
Roominghouse Madrigals
Burning Water, Drowning in Flame
Tales of Ordinary Madness

Neal Cassady

The First Third
The Joan Anderson Letter
Collected Letters

Jim Carroll

The Basketball Diaries
Downtown Diaries
Fear of Dreaming
Book of Nods

Vladimir Nabokov

Lo**ta
Speak Memory
Stories

George Orwell

1984
Down and Out in Paris and London

Aldous Huxley

Brave New World
Doors of Perception

Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse Five
Cats Cradle

Thomas Wolfe

You Can’t Go Home Again
Look Homeward Angel
The Web and the Rock

James T Farrell

The Studs Lonigan Trilogy

John OHara

Appointment in Samara
Hope of Heaven
Butterfield 8

Dee Dee Ramone

Labotomy

John Kennedy Toole

Confederacy of Dunces

Diane di Prima

Revolutionary Letters
Freddie Poems
Selected poems

Jeffrey Miller

First ones free
The heart is a quarter pounder

Gregory Corso

Gasoline
Happy birthday of death
Long live man
Mindfield
Herald of the Authotonic Spirit

Bob Kaufman

Second April
Golden Sardines
Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness
The ancient rain


Frank O’Hara

Lunch Poems
Meditations in an Emergency
Selected poems

John Weiners

Hotel Wentley Poems
Selected poems

Robert Creeley

For Love
Selected Poems

Charles Olson

Muthologies
Maximus Poems

Allen Ginsberg

HOWL and other poems
Kaddish
Planet News

Lorine Neidecker

The Granite Pail

Mina Loy

The last lunar Baedeker

The lost lunar Baedeker

Ernest Hemingway

A Moveable Feast
Up in Michigan
To Have and Have Not
Collected Stories

Patricia Highsmith

The Talented Mr Ripley

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

100 years of Solitude

Roberto Bolano

The Savage Detectives

David W.

Close to Knives

George Saunders

Civil War in Bad Decline

Edgar Allen Poe

Complete Tales and Poems

The Olympia Reader

To be continued

To be continued

07/31/2026

05/06/2026

Kurt Cobain once said Iggy Pop was the only rock star he truly admired. 🔥👇

04/21/2026

Lew and Allen Ginsburg at City Lights in San Francisco way back when!

10/16/2025

All signed all for sale

09/08/2025

https://www.nga.gov/artworks/154180-harry-smith-ethnomusicologist-cats-cradle-string-game-expert-displaying-cats-whiskers-design-hed

Harry Smith, ethnomusicologist & Cat's Cradle string game expert, displaying "cat's whiskers" design. He'd been weakening malnourished in Franciscan shelter on N.Y. Bowery, came here to stay weeks in my apartment, we went together by plane to Naropa Institute Boulder Colorado where he was resident a...