WE’VE JUST totted up the twentieth in our ongoing series of interviews at Rock and the Beat Generation, speaking with authors and journalists, novelists and poets, musicians and artists, who have connected with the Beat Generation writers in various ways. Check them out – and remember also there are plenty of other similar exchanges in numerous further features published in this digital steam…
1. Samara Kupferberg, artist, November 2nd, 2021
2. Chelsea Keenan, photographer, November 17th, 2021
3. Larry Beckett, poet and lyricist, November 27th, 2021
4. Barry Alfonso, Rod McKuen biographer, December 2nd, 2021
5. Steve Turner, journalist and Kerouac biographer, March 6th, 2022
6. Vinny Peculiar, singer-songwriter, April 27th, 2022
7. Allan Jones, music journalist, May 8th, 2022
8. Alex Harvey, TV producer and Tom Waits biographer, July 23rd, 2022
9. John Allen Cassady, son of Neal Cassady, August 4th, 2022
10. Steven Belletto, Beat academic, August 10th, 2022
11. John Cooper Clarke, poet, September 1st, 2022
12. Dave Olson, Beat researcher, October 25th, 2022
13. Jaap van der Bent, Beat academic, October 30th, 2022
14. Charles Shuttleworth, Kerouac historian, November 30th, 2022
15. Chris T-T, singer-songwriter, December 7th, 2022
16. Ramzy Alwakeel, journalist and pop author, January 4th, 2023
17. C.J. Stone, author and newspaper columnist, September 19th, 2023 [interviewed by MALCOLM PAUL]
18. Brian Patten, poet, October 23rd, 2023 [interviewed by MALCOLM PAUL]
19. Pat Thomas, counterculture historian, January 2nd, 2024
20. Don Armstrong, journalism historian and academic, February 6th, 2024
Editor's note: There are numerous other examples of conversational exchanges in the pages of Rock and the Beat Generation, including extended chats with singer Carol Grimes [interviewed by MALCOLM PAUL], academic Joan Raskin, psychologist Stevan Weine, author Nicola Bardola, musician Roland Heinrich, journalist Matias Carnevale, historian Tom Willems, artist David Templeton, writer Brian Hassett, guitarist Steven Taylor, broadcaster Peter Everett, museum director Jerry Cimino and painter Roo Waterhouse