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As you may or may not be aware, Columbia was a major hub of the Beat poetry movement, that is if you believe the plaque about Jack Kerouac in the Hartley sky lounge. Daniel Radcliffe shot a movie about the Beats on our campus, and the result, Kill Your Darlings, is now in wide release. […]

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Sure, there’s a lot of weird shit on the Internet, but there’s also a lot of really fantastic reading accessible to you.  This week, two excellent works involving Columbia have been put on Longreads’ Top 5 Longreads of the Week.  First, Columbia Magazine put out a fascinating story about Lucien Carr, the man who essentially brought […]

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The “Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg” collection, currently on display at NYU’s Grey Art Gallery, is, to say enough, engaging. There’s certainly something subtly exciting about seeing a young William S. Burroughs with a young Jack Kerouac, but it suggests that excitement is better attributed to the subjects’ proto-celebrity rather than quality of […]

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