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The Ultimate Outsider: A 1995 Interview with Gypsy Lou Webb
Boho Beat Dennis Formento Boho Beat Dennis Formento

The Ultimate Outsider: A 1995 Interview with Gypsy Lou Webb

In the 1960s, “Gypsy” Lou Webb and husband Jon Webb worked out of a tiny French Quarter apartment and published ground-breaking work by beat writers like Charles Bukowski, Henry Miller, Langston Hughes, and Jack Kerouac. Thirty years later, she looks back at her literary life in New Orleans.

-by Dennis Fomento

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The Last Forgerons
Boho Beat Michael Warner Boho Beat Michael Warner

The Last Forgerons

In 1920, the last in a line of French Quarter forgerons put down their hammers, never again to create the wonderfully detailed wrought iron fences and balconies of New Orleans.

– by Michael Warner

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