I confess

...that I don't think about the English Beat as much as I perhaps should. Must I always "Save It for Later"?




(This is via the new virtual home of Dizzyhead Queen Khong, for which I've submitted a monocular creation.)

My resolution isn't good enough to catch all the titles of the books that the beatniks are reading...I can only make out Kapital...Any Dizzyheads have better eyes/screens?

Dig the proto–Jekyll-&-Hyde decor!

Call for a list: "Beatnik" scenes in videos?

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Check out the latest—and last?—issue of Crowd magazine, full of good stuff, including fiction by Lynne Tillman (!) and Alan De Niro, an essay by Matthea Harvey, poetry by Johns Ashbery and Yau, comics by the addictive Jeffrey Brown — must I go on?!

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Up at the Believer: Interview with Eat the Document author Dana Spiotta.


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"[Salvator] Rosa's self-satisfaction was embarrassing and irritating, for he boasted that he had surpassed Michelangelo, and Passeri quickly changed the subject."
—Margot and Rudolf Wittkower, Born Under Saturn