Posted by John Joseph on August 29, 2018 · 1 Comment
Lit Nerd Wednesday! The cliché images of poetry and jazz are well engrained in the pop culture psyche of the 1950s and the Beat Generation. The seeds of that image were […]
Category: Featured, Global Featured, Greenwich Village, Neighborhoods · Tags: artnerd, artnerdnewyork, Circle in the Square Theatre, David Amram, Greenwich Village, Jack Kerouac, Jose Quintero, LitNerd, LitNerd Wednesday, Philip Lamantia, Theodore Mann
Posted by John Joseph on January 10, 2018 · 2 Comments
Lit Nerd Wednesday! It’s strange to think of West Eighth Street as anything but a few blocks of tacky shoe stores but in the 1950s and 60s it was […]
Category: Featured, Global Featured, Greenwich Village, Neighborhoods · Tags: 32 West 8th Street, Allen Ginsberg, artnerd, artnerdnewyork, Bob Dylan, e.e. cummings, Eighth Street Bookshop, Eli Wilentz, Greenwich Village, Jack Kerouac, LitNerd, LitNerd Wednesday, Marianne Moore, Stumptown Coffee, Ted Wilentz, West 8th Street
Posted by John Joseph on October 18, 2017 · 2 Comments
Lit Nerd Wednesday! “A sad park of Autumn, late Saturday afternoon — leaves by now so dry they make a general rattle and a little girl in a green knit […]
Category: East Village, Featured, Global Featured, Neighborhoods · Tags: Allen Ginsberg, Art Nerd New York, artnerd, East Village, Francesca Carr, Harmony Bar & Restaurant, Jack Kerouac, LitNerd, LitNerd Wednesday, Mary Frank, Pull My Daisy
Posted by John Joseph on June 21, 2017 · 1 Comment
Lit Nerd Wednesday! Greenwich Village during the 1950’s was a magical time in post-WWII bohemia where painters, writers and poets mingled in bars and cafes in what was then part […]
Category: Featured, Global Featured, Greenwich Village, Neighborhoods · Tags: 93 MacDougal Street, Allen Ginsberg, artnerd, artnerdnewyork, Beat Generation, Frank O'Hara, Greenwich Village, Jack Kerouac, LitNerd, LitNerd Wednesday, San Remo Cafe
Posted by John Joseph on March 29, 2017 · 2 Comments
Lit Nerd Wednesday! Columbia University, besides being outrageously expensive and eminent domainy, played a key role in one of the biggest literary movements of the 20th century and one of […]
Category: Featured, Global Featured, Neighborhoods, Upper West Side · Tags: Allen Ginsberg, artnerd, artnerdnewyork, Beat Generation, columbia university, Jack Kerouac, LitNerd, LitNerd Wednesday, Lucien Carr, Morningside Heights, William S Burroughs
Posted by John Joseph on February 19, 2014 · Leave a Comment
LitNerd Extra! The Beat Generation in glorious black and white! Taken from the third act of Jack Kerouac’s play Beat Generation with a jazz soundtrack by the still very active David […]
Category: Art-spirational Videos · Tags: Alfred Leslie, Allen Ginsberg, artnerd, artnerdnewyork, David Amram, Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, LitNerd Wednesday, Lower East Side, Pull My Daisy, Robert Frank
Posted by John Joseph on January 15, 2014 · Leave a Comment
LitNerd Extra! It’s a bit sad to see Jack Kerouac in the last few years of his life bitter, misunderstood and drunk a good chunk of the time. Since the […]
Posted by Lori Zimmer on July 31, 2013 · 6 Comments
Where do all the artists get their booze on today? Cedar Tavern was a booze-fueled Abstract Expressionist think tank. The bar, which had its third location at 24 University Place, […]
Category: Featured, Greenwich Village, Neighborhoods · Tags: Abstract Expressionism, Allen Ginsberg, Beat Poets, Cedar Tavern, Franz Kline, Greenwich Village, Jack Kerouac, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning
