”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...

"... Joan Vollmer's memory has long been framed within the narrative of the troubled five-year common-law marriage to the writer William S. Burroughs... her accidental death at her husband's hand is unforgettable, the most enduring event of her short life. The shooting made her life a...

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,...