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‘No plan, no budget, no promotion’: how a genre-mashing masterpiece by a forgotten New York beatnik blew gen Z away

How did an album that began life in 1984 – fusing disco, folk, synth-pop and Chinese opera – end up as ‘one of 2026’s most thrilling releases’? And why does its creator call himself Nirosta Steel?

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Second day of US strikes on Iran as Trump says Tehran ‘behaving very badly’

Explosions reported in southern Iran in most extensive exchange of fire since interim ceasefire. Plus the complicated legacy of beat poet Allen Ginsberg

The Guardian - UK

Beat legend, ‘boy lover’: how should we reckon with Allen Ginsberg’s complex legacy?

As a series of star-studded events celebrates Ginsberg’s centennial, the keeper of his estate weighs the genius poetry – and provocative views – of the iconic writer

The Guardian - US

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Legendary musician’s handwritten lyrics inside book up for auction

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The Independent UK

Bob Dylan draft lyrics found inside book expected to sell for up to £40,000

The type written draft lyrics for Dylan’s I’m Not There were found inside a first edition poetry book by Allen Ginsberg.

Evening Standard

Rare Bob Dylan draft lyrics found inside Allen Ginsberg book

The type written draft lyrics for Dylan’s I’m Not There were found inside a first edition poetry book

The Independent UK

First Thing: Kuwaiti tanker hit by Iranian drone attack in Dubai port

The attack came hours after Trump threatened to ‘obliterate’ Iran’s energy plants and oil wells unless it opened the strait of Hormuz. Plus, Israel to give death penalty to Palestinians convicted of lethal attacks

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‘Extremely rare’ Bob Dylan draft lyrics discovered inside Allen Ginsberg book

A torn page bearing Dylan’s lyrics for the 1967 song I’m Not There is set to go under the hammer in April when it could fetch £40,000

The Guardian - AU

Glenn Storhaug obituary

Other lives: Poet and publisher who founded Five Seasons Press in the late 1970s to share his enthusiasm of the form

The Guardian - UK

On the trail of the Romantics in the Welsh borders

The ruins of Tintern Abbey have inspired artists and poets. Now, the restoration of a historic inn has given visitors a perfect base for exploring this corner of Monmouthshire

The Guardian - UK

Dylan through the lens of Black America

"Highway of Diamonds" showcases decades of Black artists reshaping and sometimes radically reframing Dylan's work

Salon

‘To be really successful, you have to be sexy in a straight way’: Ben Whishaw on libidinous New York and playing Peter Hujar

Peter Hujar captured a queer Manhattan demi-monde that is now lost to Aids. Whishaw reveals what he learned playing the photographer in a minimalist film being hailed by some as a masterpiece

The Guardian - UK

How Did Daniel Radcliffe Meet Partner Erin Darke Anyway? A 'Blowjob' Scene Led Him To His Future Family

Does this count as a meet-cute?

Cinemablend

PBS executive seen smiling in mugshot after being arrested on meth charges during traffic stop

Hibblen is a prominent local journalist who interviewed stars like Allen Ginsberg and Willie Nelson before his arrest

The Independent UK

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The Conversation

Kerouac’s Road: The Beat of A Nation – this documentary can’t reconcile nostalgia with the true contemporary US

When Jack Kerouac published On the Road in 1957, he presented the novel as the product of a single marathon writing binge. It was a method he had been working on since the late 1940s that his friend Allen Ginsberg dubbed “spontaneous bop prosody”.

The Guardian - UK

Liverpool poet Brian Patten dies at 79

His poetry often explored love and relationships and he wrote books for children including Gargling With Jelly

The Guardian - UK

Allen Ginsberg in the back of my cab: Ryan Weideman’s best photograph

‘When I stopped to let him out, he was looking down. I didn’t know what he was doing. Turned out he was writing a poem about me. I still have it’

The Guardian - UK

Mother Mary Comes To Me by Arundhati Roy review – brave and absorbing

In this remarkable memoir, the Booker-winning novelist looks back on her bittersweet relationship with her mercurial mother

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Reason

A Beatnik Tourist in Ayahuasca Country

William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg's trip reports form one of the most entertaining books in the Beat canon.

The Independent UK

Counting Crows’ Adam Duritz: ‘Kurt Cobain’s death scared me – it taught me what could happen to me’

INTERVIEW: The frontman of one of the biggest rock acts of the Nineties talks to Sarfraz Manzoor about the breakdown he experienced after Cobain’s suicide, finding peace by hanging out with Johnny Depp and Allen Ginsberg at The Viper Room, and his struggles with dissociative disorder

Louder

“If you don’t like Bringing It All Back Home, you don’t like music. You should hand your ears back.” Bob Dylan’s game-changing album is 60 today and still astonishing

Yeah, I said it.

Salon

The ultra-rich want to escape. Good idea

Billionaires are building luxury getaways to hide from civilization’s collapse. Cool. We’re better off without them

The Guardian - UK

Peter Hujar’s Day review – Ben Whishaw goes low-key in snapshot of the photographer’s remarkable life

Whishaw is not tested by this verbatim retelling of Hujar’s day in hip 1970s New York, recounting encounters with Ginsburg, Burroughs and Leibowitz

The Guardian - UK

‘What’s going on in Bob Dylan’s head’: Mr Tambourine Man lyrics up for auction

Rare drafts of one of Dylan’s best known songs found in journalist’s archive could fetch up to $1 million as part of wider legacy sale

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30 Pictures That Take Us Back To New York In The 1990s

This archive is full of street scenes, landmarks, and iconic locations in New York that have been majorly transformed since. The post 30 Pictures That Take Us Back To New York In The 1990s first appeared on Bored Panda.

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