Allen Ginsberg News

It may not rouse too much interest on this side of the Atlantic, but tonight Dave Eggers will be presented with the Literarian Award by the National Book Foundation for "outstanding service to the American literary community". It's the third major prize Eggers has won in as many years.

The American Conservative is running a symposium on great works that have been neglected.

Actually, we're being unfair. Johnny Borrell presenting a programme on Xfm isn't wrong for the station .

Loren Coleman on August 7th, 2009 Shown clockwise from left: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Lafcadio Orlovsky, and Gregory Corso in 1956.

Loren Coleman on August 7th, 2009 Shown clockwise from left: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Lafcadio Orlovsky, and Gregory Corso in 1956.

Loren Coleman on August 7th, 2009 Shown clockwise from left: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Lafcadio Orlovsky, and Gregory Corso in 1956.

Only at the Beat Museum will you find an emergency exit warning you that an alarm "will HOWL" if the door is opened.

International Times: Paul McCartney on a January 1967 cover. Photograph: International Times Archive.

A Universe in which I am condemned to write statements. --Allen Ginsberg, Aether , 1960 I recently returned to a book I edited over this past year-- SQL and Relational Theory: How to Write Accurate SQL Code by C.J. Date, a leading researcher in the field of relational databases--as I learned more about some of the alternative forms of data storage ...