I sent out PDF proof copies of my book to a few Beat Literature scholars and authors and got my first review. This is definitely going on the back cover: “Rick Schober’s dazzling anthology of interviews with Beat poet Gregory Corso provides a wealth of information about Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, even as it offers valuable insights into the rambunctious cultural movements that rocked the western world from the 1950s to the 1980s. Perhaps best of all, this volume brings Corso’s inimitable voice back to life as he moves from to New York to Paris to San Francisco rapping, reading, drinking, eating and living the life that he explored in words. The Whole Shot is essential reading for all students, scholars and aficionados of the work of that wicked angel, Gregory Corso, who published his first book in 1955 and who is just now beginning to be appreciated as a major twentieth-century American writer.” -- Jonah Raskin, author of American Scream: Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and the Making of the Beat Generation
Posted on: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 00:43:30 +0000
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