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Allen Ginsberg’s Journals Offer Insight into Poetry, Culture, and Politics During the Cold War
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Allen Ginsberg’s Journals Offer Insight into Poetry, Culture, and Politics During the Cold War

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 / 19 November 2018

Beginning in Cuba in 1965, Ginsberg recorded his experiences behind the Iron Curtain. Iron Curtain Journals: January-May 1965 brings us with him, via his intimate diary.

Phil Ochs: ‘There But for Fortune’
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Phil Ochs: ‘There But for Fortune’

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 / 28 June 2018

The re-issue of Michael Schumacher's biography There But For Fortune is the tale of an insatiable obsessive stumbling down a legendary path but not coming out okay at the other end.