Left photo: Wiilliam S.
Burroughs and Jack Kerouac
Right photo: Clockwise from top left: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg,
Peter Orlovsky, Lafcadio Orlovsky, Gregory Corso. Mexico City, November
1956. Photo courtesy Allen Ginsberg project.
Literature panel: The Beats and Mexico
Thursday, May 6, 2010
at 7:00 PM
Americas
Society
680 Park
Avenue
New York, NY
Please RSVP
Speakers:
Joyce Johnson, John Tytell, and Regina
Weinreich
Three authorities on Beat literature will discuss the
fascination that
the Beat writers had with Mexico, where they sojourned in the 1950s and
which fed Burroughs’s Naked Lunch,
Kerouac’s Tristessa,
and Ginsberg’s Howl. Indeed, Mexico was a site of both
creative inspiration and personal tragedy for the Beats. In this panel,
which will explore the Beats’ experiences with Mexico, Weinreich (Kerouac’s
Spontaneous Poetics) will cover Burroughs; Johnson (Minor
Characters as well as the author of a new Kerouac biography) will
talk about Kerouac; and Tytell (Naked Angels) will moderate and
discuss the appeal Mexico had for the Beats.
Panel discussion
in English.
