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Lawrence Ferlinghetti: the man who gave 1950s San Francisco its beat

As a poet, an activist, a publisher and a businessman, 100-year-old Ferlinghetti has never shied away from promoting socialist principles on the world stage – repeatedly calling out the…

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti: the man who gave 1950s San Francisco its beat

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Journalism’s lord of misrule: the gonzo philosophy of Hunter S Thompson

Who Killed Hunter S Thompson? is a big and beautiful compendium of friends’ reminiscences of the infamous writer.

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Vampire writer Kim Newman roams gleefully through history with a stake and a mallet

Anno Dracula 1899 and Kim Newman's Video Dungeon are complex, funny and full of hyper-accurate references.

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