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Herschel Silverman, the Bebop Beatnik Candy Store Poet of Bayonne, New Jersey
Levi Asher
September 21, 2015

Does Nonviolence Work? Ta-Nehisi Coates and Maria Stephan
Levi Asher
September 8, 2015

The Internet Age Began on August 9, 1995
Levi Asher
August 8, 2015

My Summer Vacation at Willa Cather Camp
Sherri Hoffman Hoye
July 31, 2015

Birth Pangs: When Kerouac Met The Web
Tim K. Gallaher
July 23, 2015

The Noble Racist: Atticus Finch and the Ashley Wilkes Principle
Levi Asher
July 14, 2015

Let’s Head Back to Tennessee, Jed
Levi Asher
July 6, 2015

Conjuring the Beat Generation: Gerd Stern and the Cassady Kin
Levi Asher
June 19, 2015

Splinters
Levi Asher
June 12, 2015

About Us (2015)
Marc Eliot Stein
May 28, 2015

A Beat Gathering in San Francisco, June 27 and 28
Levi Asher
May 27, 2015

Satin Island: Tom McCarthy’s Humanistic Weave
Levi Asher
May 13, 2015

Ta-Nehisi Coates is Wrong, Wrong, Wrong About Nonviolence
Levi Asher
April 28, 2015

First There Is A Mountain
Levi Asher
April 20, 2015

Appomattox: How a War Ends
Levi Asher
April 9, 2015

Sixteen Songs About a Ship of Fools
Levi Asher
March 29, 2015

Ship of Fools, the Enduring Metaphor
Levi Asher
March 24, 2015

Pacifism Weekend: Why The Iran Deal Is Very Good News
Levi Asher
March 15, 2015

Nicholson Baker and Him: A Talk with J. C. Hallman
Levi Asher
March 10, 2015

From Contradiction to Cartoon: Reflections of Napoleon Bonaparte
Levi Asher
March 2, 2015

Kathy Acker: Dead Doll Humility
Levi Asher
February 24, 2015

Geek Sublime by Vikram Chandra
Levi Asher
February 15, 2015

Daevid Allen of Gong
Levi Asher
February 7, 2015

From the Tao Te Ching
Levi Asher
February 3, 2015

“I’ll Meet You Under The Words”: Language Matters with Bob Holman
Levi Asher
January 27, 2015

Timothy Spall as J. M. W. Turner as Mike Leigh
Levi Asher
January 20, 2015
Where I’m Going Next
Levi Asher
January 7, 2015

Peace Moves Fast
Levi Asher
December 19, 2014

Torture and the Herd Mind
Levi Asher
December 13, 2014

What Can A Pacifist Say About Racism?
Levi Asher
December 7, 2014