Dream a Little Dream of Me: An Interview with Pénélope Bagieu
All images from California Dreamin’ by Pénélope Baigu. “I could live at MoPOP,” the French cartoonist Pénélope Bagieu tells me. She has just returned from Seattle, where she debuted her new...
View ArticleJoanne Kyger in the Review
Photo: Elsa Dorfman. We were sad to learn that Joanne Kyger, whom the San Francisco Gate calls “a leading poet of the San Francisco Renaissance and a rare female voice of the male-dominated Beat...
View ArticleVery Special Gladnesses
Endre Tót is one of thirty artists whose work appears in “With the Eyes of Others: Hungarian Artists of the Sixties and Seventies,” a group exhibition devoted to the Hungarian avant-garde, showing at...
View ArticleSummers and Swimmers
With a new retrospective, the screenwriter Eleanor Perry gets belated recognition. Still from The Swimmer. The 1972 Cannes Film Festival was marked by protests against Italy’s reigning auteur,...
View ArticleA Lost Exchange Between Burroughs and Ginsberg
Photo: Hank O’Neal. In 1992, five years before his death, Allen Ginsberg visited William S. Burroughs’s home in Lawrence, Kansas. Over the course of four days, the two Beats chatted about everything...
View ArticleEdward Gorey Lived at the Ballet
Edward Gorey near one of the Nadelman sculptures on the promenade at the NY State Theater, 1973. Photograph: Bruce Chernin. Image provided by the Alpern Collection, Rare Book & Manuscript Library,...
View ArticleMexico’s Marxist Prophet
José Revueltas, posing in a cell at Lecumberri Prison. The Hole begins with the description of what an eye sees through a confined space: the small hatch of a punishment cell that opens onto the...
View ArticleStrange Magic
M. Dean is a cartoonist and illustrator originally from the west coast of Florida, where she attended Ringling College of Art and Design. She is the inaugural recipient of the...
View ArticleStaff Picks: Good Guys, Goose Fat, and Ghosts of Mars
Kristen Roupenian. Photo: Elisa Roupenian Toha. There was a time when I found online dating apps addictive. It was a guiltless game: arbitrarily judging prospects by a series of photos, a far-fetched...
View ArticleThe Sixties Diaries
My father, Ted Berrigan, is primarily known for his poetry, especially his book The Sonnets, which reimagined the traditional sonnet from a perspective steeped in the art of assemblage circa the early...
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