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Cut & Paste — Writer Paul Thiel
Cut and Paste
English - July 12, 2019 22:20 - 30 minutes - 42.5 MB - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsPerforming Arts Arts arts culture stlouis Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Thiel sought his literary fortunes in San Francisco in 1963, where he moved into the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood and discovered the burgeoning scene of Beat poets centered around Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s City Lights bookstore. Allen Ginsberg was a familiar face in the neighborhood, and, for a time, an unknown singer named Janis Joplin rehearsed beneath his poet’s loft.
He later relocated to New York City, where he sold poems on the streets of Greenwich Village for a quarter apiece; saw W. H. Auden hanging out in the back at poetry readings; and encountered Andy Wharhol as a “white ghost” always hovering silently around the literary and artistic scene. He also witnessed the Stonewall Uprising, the acts of protest and civil disobedience that launched the Gay Liberation movement