”If you only know one photograph of the Beat Generation, you know this one. It’s the single most famous picture of Burroughs, Ginsberg, and Kerouac. But who took it, when, where, and why? What are its secrets, and how can it be a crime scene? Whatever you think you know is almost...

Arrigo Lora-Totino (1928-2016) was an artist and poet from Turin, Italy. He is considered one of the key figures in Italian sound poetry. Lora-Totino’s first experiments with poetry stem from the late 1950s-early 1960s, a period in which he also founded his first magazine dedicated to...

Neuntage Alt & L'Ambassadeur des Ombres : two new cassettes in the tapetopia series Neuntage Alt were founded in 1986. The core members Taymur Streng, René Glofke and Mike Sauer, who had been friends since 1982, were graduates of the hard school of early GDR punk, through which,...

Stroker was a magazine of literature and arts that ran from 1974 to 1994. It was published from New York - and later from Nagano, Japan - by American artist and author Irving Stettner (1922-2004). Stettner, a friend of Henry Miller's, lived many years as an ex-pat in France, Morocco,...