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A Pilgrimage to Algiers: the New Orleans Home of William S. Burroughs
A writer reflects on a London visit with Williams S. Burroughs and a later pilgrimage to the Beat writer’s home in Algiers Point, a place immortalized in Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road.”
– by Richard Goodman
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