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"I feel there are territories within us that are totally unknown. Huge, mysterious, and dangerous territories . . . And if we don't enter those in art of one kind or another, whether it's playwriting, or painting, or music, or whatever, then I don't understand the point of doing anything. It's the reason I write. I try to go into parts of myself that are unknown."
—Sam Shepard, quoted in The Other American Drama [1994] by Marc Robinson

City Lights Bookstore

Drugstore Cowboy - Old Tom, Defrocked Junkie Priest

Ginsberg Sings on Firing Line

Jack Kerouac Reads from On the Road

Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Lunch Poems

Towers Open Fire

William S. Burroughs: The Priest They Called Him

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