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Sinclair Beiles: A Man Apart

Josh Medsker

Sinclair Beiles - courtesy of GC - from the book Bone Hebrew

Sinclair Beiles was a South African writer associated with the Beat movement of the late 50s and early 60s. During the time of his earliest successes, he moved from South Africa to Paris, to live with … [Read more...]

A William S. Burroughs top ten from Jed B. with his comments

Top Ten List Contributor

William S Burroughs copyright Christiaan Tonnis http://www.flickr.com/photos/christiaan_tonnis/3678726329/

comment: So you have read Naked Lunch and Junkie and maybe even paged though the Nova Trilogy of Soft Machine, The Ticket That Exploded and Nova Express, you think you know William Burroughs. Well … [Read more...]

La Picaudiere — and Hundertwasser’s Honey

Kenneth Tindall

La Picaudiere - and Hundertwasser's Honey

Asked in an interview what he would remember most about his life as an artist, Man Ray replied "the women." I was a bee whisperer, like Edmund Hillary who climbed Mount Everest and who was a beekeeper … [Read more...]

Interview with Kenneth Tindall: From Bellevue to Lynæs. An Interview by Lars Movin

Kenneth Tindall

Kenneth Tindall - Great Heads

(First published in "Maskinfabrikken," Copenhagen) Kenneth Tindall (b. 1937) is a well-kept literary secret. He first appeared in 1967 with Vindharpen, a novel about Copenhagen in the sixties, … [Read more...]

Poet Kay Johnson, aka Kaja

David Gitin and various contributors

poet and painter Kay Johnson / Beat Hotel resident

Gerry George: i knew kay johnson as swami-ji in berkeley in 1973 when we were very close friends for a time. she gave me the typewriter she had carried in greece, an orange portable with a large … [Read more...]

Book Review – The Beat Hotel by Barry Miles

Hammond Guthrie

Barry Miles - Beat Hotel

With the July 2000 Grove Press release of The Beat Hotel, author (Barry) Miles revisits 9 rue Git-le-Coeur, an historic set of decaying digs amid a rat infested slum on the Left Bank of Paris, "a … [Read more...]

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (6)

Empty Mirror

Ted Joans rhinostopper art

Denise Enck: I've been writing a piece about Ted and will post it here in a few days. But this this morning while looking through a cache of letters, postcards, and ephemera Ted sent me over the … [Read more...]

Book Review – Who was Sinclair Beiles?

Denise Enck

Who Was Sinclair Beiles? Essays

Who was Sinclair Beiles? / Gary Cummiskey & Eva Kowalska, editors / Dye Hard Press / 2009 / 978-0-620-42792-0 Before I opened Dye Hard Press' new volume, its title, Who was Sinclair Beiles? was a … [Read more...]

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Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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