Thuston Moore’s syllabus for a poetry class he teaches at the Jack Kerouac school at Naropa University. Look for a forthcoming interview in Bombay Gin:
“During the three hours we talked, we discussed a wealth of subjects tracking how he came to be so knowledgeable about the counterculture, from his teenage years driving from Connecticut to New York to see the first punk bands, to his realization that many of the musicians he admired, like Patti Smith and Lou Reed, had artistic origins in their admiration and emulation of Beat Generation writers like Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs.”