John Wisniewski: Tobias, you have written two books on the life of Aleister Crowley. What…
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Interview by John Wisniewski KEVIN KILLIANKevin Killian is an American poet, author, editor, and playwright of primarily LGBT literature. My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer, which he co-edited with Peter Gizzi, won the American Book Award for poetry in 2009. His novel, Impossible Princess, won the 2010 Lambda Literary
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John Wisniewski: What research went into writing your book on Allen Ginsberg? Bob Rosenthal: Straight Around…
Interview by John Wisniewski John WisniewskI: When did you begin playing music John? John Blair: In the early 1960s when I was in high school. My first band was a surf band in 1963, The Intruders. John WisniewskI: What were some of the band's you played in? John Blair: After The Intruders, I was in a folk-rock group
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Jeffrey Cyphers Wright is an artist, critic, eco-activist, impresario and publisher, but is best known…
Interview by John Wisniewski In 1967, 21-year-old Pauline Butcher was working for a London secretarial agency when one evening a call came through from a Mr Frank Zappa asking for a typist to come to his hotel room. The assignment would change her life forever. After this chance encounter, at Frank's request, Pauline moved with
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John Wisniewski: What got you interested in the Swans, Nick? Nick Soulsby: I believe music…
Interview by John Wisniewski This is the only book written about "the Woodstock of the Beats" - the historic 1982 Kerouac SuperSummit in Boulder where, as John Clellon Holmes put it, "more of us were together than had ever been together in one place at one time before." And nothing on this scale ever happened
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Interview by John Wisniewski Home When did you begin writing, Victoria? The earliest record of my writing poems is in elementary school. I also used to write short stories then too as part of our school writing contests (they made us all do it and everyone won something). I really think that started me writing.
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Interview by John Wisniewski John Wisniewski: Could you tell us what you are working on currently? A.D. Hitchin: I've just reached an agreement with a commercial publisher for a non-fiction book to be released next year, but most recently, I've just finished writing the text of Prince: Purple Reign for Plexus Books. More than a colouring book, each one
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