Allen Ginsberg on Jack Kerouac, Doing Acid, and the Legacy of Howl

In honor of what would’ve been Allen Ginsberg’s 100th birthday this month, Interview is republishing this conversation between the poet and longtime friend Gregory Corso. This text originally appeared in the December 1989 issue of the magazine. ——— The son of the poet Louis Ginsberg, Allen Ginsberg was raised in Paterson, New Jersey, and attended […]

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When Roald Dahl Wrote a Story Predicting the Rise of ChatGPT and Other AI Large Language Models (1954)

Most of us who know the work of Roald Dahl grew up with it, eventually coming to consider the man a master of imaginative, often grotesque tales for children. A bit later on, when we heard that he’d also written books for adults, with titles like Kiss Kiss and Switch Bitch, some of us sought […]

How William S. Burroughs Used the Cut-Up Technique to Shut Down London’s First Espresso Bar (1972)

As we’ve noted before, the English coffeehouse has served as a staging ground for radical, sometimes revolutionary social change. Certainly this was the case during the Enlightenment, as it was with the salons in France. And yet, by the early 20th century it seems, coffee shops in London had grown scarcer and more humdrum. That […]

දීපචෙල්වන්ගේ පොත්: රේගුව-කලා මණ්ඩලය අතර මාරාන්තික පරස්පරතාව සහ මාලිමාවේ දෘෂ්ටිවාදය

ලේඛක දීපචෙල්වන් ප්‍රදීපන්ගේ පොත් හතරක් ශ්‍රී ලංකා රේගුව විසින් රඳවා තබා ගැනීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් පසුගිය කාලයේ සමාජය තුළ බරපතල සංවාදයක් මතු විය. එහි ප්‍රතිඵලයක් ලෙස ශ්‍රී ලංකා කලා මණ්ඩලය සහ රාජ්‍ය සාහිත්‍ය අනුමණ්ඩලය...

Hear the First Book of Homer’s Iliad Read Aloud in the Original Greek

You can, of course, learn the Greek language as it’s spoken today. You can also learn Greek as it was spoken in antiquity — and as it was, until fairly recently in historical time, taught to students in the modern West. But it’s a fairly different endeavor again to learn Greek as Homer spoke it. […]

Kurt Vonnegut Diagrams the Shape of All Stories in a Master’s Thesis Rejected by U. Chicago

“What has been my prettiest contribution to the culture?” asked Kurt Vonnegut in his autobiography Palm Sunday. His answer? His master’s thesis in anthropology for the University of Chicago, “which was rejected because it was so simple and looked like too much fun.” The elegant simplicity and playfulness of Vonnegut’s idea is exactly its enduring […]

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Chance That King Arthur Manuscript with 126 Sumptuous Illustrations Soon Enters Public Collection

A stunning manuscript containing the full extent of the King Arthur legend, embossed with sumptuous illustrations, is going up for auction at Christie’s. One of three such copies known—all of which remain in private collections—the Lebaudy Manuscript contains 126 illustrations, a unique story of the wizard Merlin disguising himself as a stag, and enjoys an […]

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