Brenda Knight, author of “Memory Babes: Joyce Johnson and Beat Memoir,” describes Herbert Huncke (rhymes with “junky”) as “the most Beat of the entire group,” that group including Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Diane Di Prima, Gregory Corso, and all those dubbed the Beat Generation. Why distinguish Huncke this way? Perhaps this stems from Kerouac’s admiration […]
March 2020: Covid left the global populace struggling to fill the isolating void of shutdown. Many learned new skills. Others fired up their streaming channels and shot-gunned film after film and television series after television series. As a suicide-prevention and crisis-intervention counselor, I broke overtime records after our volunteers had retreated to the safety of […]
Born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, Maila Elizabeth Syrjäniemi spent her youth in Astoria, Oregon, working for fish canneries. After high school, she developed grander ambitions and headed to New York and Los Angeles, where she acted, danced, and flirted with greatness. Finally, in 1954, now known as Maila Nurmi, she entered pop culture notoriety, initiating a […]
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