The Obscure, Forgotten, and Undiscovered
James K. HannaBrief stories, observations, introductions, and profiles of little-known characters, or reminders of long-forgotten events. Often including links to learn more. I am a historian, essayist, and author. Subscribe for free.
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the late Frank Stanford, poet
Frank Stanford, Arkansas Times
“Wes Tirey is a cow punk troubadour from the Midwest.” So begins the essay “Billy the Kid, With Chaser” by James McWilliams in the (always outstanding) music section of the current issue of County Highway....
What is a Classic?
Photo by Iñaki del Olmo on Unsplash
Fellow bibliophiles, are you seeing what I’m seeing in book sale advertisements? Advertisers seem to be playing fast-and-loose with the term “Classic.” How can so many books—especially new, and even the...
Two new Kerouac books
Beat movement scholars anxiously await two new Kerouac books, both scheduled to be released on July 28.
Someday We’ll Build Cabins: The Letters of Jack Kerouac, Jacques Beckwith, and Lois Sorrells Beckwith edited by Bill Morgan (Rare Bird...
Hard in Every Way Imaginable: The Education of a Poet—Corso in Stripes
Gregory Corso, 1982, photo by Gerald Nicosia
“Sometimes hell is a good place—if it proves to one that because it exists, so must its opposite, heaven, exist. And what was that heaven? Poetry.”
—Gregory Corso on life in prison
Baptized Nu...
Thomas Merton: but they really like cigarettes and pie
Fr. John Hugo, Pittsburgh Catholic, year unknown
Father John Hugo of Pittsburgh visited Kentucky and the Cistercian (Trappist) Abbey of Gethsemane in 1947, the monastery home of the-then-not-yet famous Thomas Merton.
Readers are likely fa...
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