Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Engagement. How to write an essay
  • The writer as peeping John: on the nature of biographical inquiry
  • Hemlock or ambrosia: writing and editorial process
  • Notes of a peripatetic lecturer
  • Senator tripletalk and the American dream
  • Passing through: 50 years @ mind factory
  • Reconsidering the beats
  • The traveling writer: Beat Mexico
  • Kerouac's music
  • Ginsberg today
  • The oppositional writer: Ed Sanders, Allen Ginsberg and Carl Solomon, William Burroughs, William Gaddis
  • The editor as midwife: writers and little magazines
  • Metaphysics. Bombing with words
  • A writer's retreat
  • Poetic faith: religion and the writer
  • A writer's passage
  • The donkey and the written word.