Thursday, October 21, 2010

Justin Taylor on Ted Berrigan:
"He makes a great muse for aspiring hipsters who want to move to New York and
get laid and never work and write all day and steal from bookstores and be poor
all the time but not care too much and stay up all night collaborating on rad
projects with their awesome friends--but who don't want to do all of this under
the aegis of Jack Kerouac, like their lame-ass parents (and Ted Berrigan) did."

More "Letters from a Young Poet"

1 comment:

Amelia said...

i did a little work on the proofs of that book (dear sandy, hello) while interning at coffee house. i love reading correspondences. also, last year i read berrigan's red wagon (a first edition copy inconspicuously residing in the memorial stacks). it's a good one.