In 2008, when he was 84, the novelist Herbert Gold wrote a memoir called "Still Alive! A Temporary condition." I was looking at it and wondering if he's still alive. It turns out he is, at age 97.pic.twitter.com/BiekbKiJEC
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Beat. Beatnik was the name given them by Herb Caen, a grouchy old fossil even in his thirties when he named them, because he didn't understand them and wanted to live in a world frozen in Damon Runyon Land. They called themselves Beats.
He wrote a book in the 90s called Bohemia that was good, that had a lot about the history of coffee and coffee houses.
yeah, I read that when it came out. Pretty good.
Please visit my neighborhood (South Berkeley)
Elderly editor who knew Herb in 1950s: “how do people think he’s a beatnik? He panned On The Road in The Nation when it came out!” Me: “in todays world, everyone who reviewed that book - even a 65 year old lady for the paper in Bismarck ND - is or was a Beat.”
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