Lollipop Magazine

Beast of the Heartland – Lucius Shepard – Review

June 1, 1999

“Overhead, a pair of laced-together sneakers looped over a telephone line heeled and kicked in a stiff breeze, bringing to mind a gallows dance.”

A Quilted Heart – R.M. Vaughan – Review

June 1, 1999

My last sensation before death – the fat, lemony zinc taste of the poison Samson had fed me – was gone, because the embalmers brushed my teeth and tongue.

Word Virus – The William S. Burroughs Reader – Review

April 1, 1999

Compilation of published works spanning the career of one of the great American minds of the 20th Century. Includes an excerpt of the Kerouac collaboration.

Void of Course – Poems 1994-1997 – Jim Carroll – Review

April 1, 1999

Celebrated NYC prose punk descendant of the Patti-Lou School of Street Poetics in his latest rhythmic fit. Seventy-five new pieces.

Patti Smith Complete – Review

April 1, 1999

Collection of poems, photos, and untitled notes spanning three decades of Patti Smith’s career.

No Forwarding Address – Natalie Jacobson – Review

April 1, 1999

Val and Doyle are two friends occupying the alternative universe of poet/prose-ist Natalie Jacobson’s downtown New York streets of the early 1980s.

Nick Drake – Patrick Humphries – Review

April 1, 1999

First ever word bio of influential ’60s folkie dark child who OD’d on anti-depressants at the tender age of 26 and left three albums behind.

Mister Satan’s Apprentice – A Blues Memoir – Adam Gussow – Review

April 1, 1999

Satan and Adam are the two real-life, street-busking musicians brought together by their appreciation of The Blues.

Jack Kerouac – King of the Beats – Barry Miles – Review

April 1, 1999

Barry Miles, who’s previously authored works on Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Paul McCartney, undertakes Assignment Kerouac in the role of American storyteller.

Herbert Huncke Reader – Review

April 1, 1999

A splatterful of previously-unpublished scrawls from America’s Genet; graceful nobility amid thieving, street-hustling, hypodermic dreams.