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The Vestal Lady on Brattle: Annotated
- By: Gregory Corso
- Narrated by: Dean Sluyter
- Length: 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
In the mid-1950s a new literary movement emerged from a New York-based group of writers who migrated to the West Coast and became the voice of a Post-War generation - the Beats...the group expanded to include a fresh-faced delinquent just out of prison, Gregory Corso. Corso was a creature of the streets and his poetry, although reflecting refined sensibilities, often harkened back to his old Italian neighborhood and the petty mischief that landed him in penal institutions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hear the mind-delighting vibrations of a young Gregory Corso fill your space.
- By tom cantrell on 08-06-19
- The Vestal Lady on Brattle: Annotated
- By: Gregory Corso
- Narrated by: Dean Sluyter
Hear the mind-delighting vibrations of a young Gregory Corso fill your space.
Reviewed: 08-06-19
In 1954 Gregory Corso moved to Boston where he became something of a stow-away in the Harvard University Library. His first publication was in the Harvard Advocate in 1954, and it was students from Harvard and Radcliffe who financed this amazing series of brilliant street outbursts in book form, priced then at one dollar, titled The Vestal Lady on Brattle and still an amazing deal.
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Gasoline
- By: Gregory Corso
- Narrated by: Dean Sluyter
- Length: 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story5 out of 5 stars 10
Gregory Corso exploded onto the Beat scene in the mid-1950s when the names Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs were changing the course of American literature. Corso added a street appeal to Beat poetry that may have been lacking in the works of others who had more elitist backgrounds. Corso had been a real live juvenile delinquent, in and out of reform schools and written off by society as a wayward youth. But while in prison he learned to read - and he read deeply and began to produce his own poetry, showing a rare perception and facility with words.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent reading of Corso's best poems.
- By Thomas Wingelnik on 06-07-19
- Gasoline
- By: Gregory Corso
- Narrated by: Dean Sluyter
Fine reading of Gregory Corso’s “Gasoline”
Reviewed: 06-02-19
As a fan of Beat poetry who saw Corso do a reading once in the 1990’s at New College in San Francisco I was 100% satisfied with this performance on the Audible book. Ode to Coit Tower is like a miles long unfolding post card from 50’s Beat San Francisco that nobody else could have written. The shorter poems are hilarious, touching, tough and tender with what Corso called his “delcato touch.” I loved the merry chase after Corso’s lines and images that the narrator led me on more than when I first read the book.
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Weegee
- The Autobiography
- By: Weegee
- Narrated by: Clay Lomakayu
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 11
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11
Weegee not only captured the gritty underbelly of New York City in his explosive photographs, but he lived it as well. This long out-of-print autobiography, brought back with complete and unabridged text by Devault-Graves Digital Editions, was written toward the end of Weegee's life before he was the photographic legend he is today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Weegee The Famous, a singularly unique character
- By Lemkowitz on 06-10-18
- Weegee
- The Autobiography
- By: Weegee
- Narrated by: Clay Lomakayu
Wonderful narrative performance of Weegee's words
Reviewed: 10-23-16
What did you love best about Weegee?
Listening to this autobiography filled the room with Weegee's words so convincingly that it was like sharing my space with the amazing guy himself, and he is one entertaining talker. Kind of a braggart but I was glad he was because otherwise he might not have done justice to his magnificent immigrant and artistic journey. It's a sociological document too of family-life, business, education, humor, and sexual mores in a New York immigrant community in the first half of the 20th century.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Weegee himself because his unschooled eloquence expressed the creative force that drove him, and made a guy who specialized in murder victim photos a beloved figure.
Which character – as performed by Clay Lomakayu – was your favorite?
Clay Lomakayu is amazing. This made me think of something on the level of Hal Holbrook bringing Mark Twain alive on stage, only here all Lomakayu needed was his voice.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
It somehow cut through the rationalizations of not facing personal failures that hold one back from living out his personal vision unabashedly.
Any additional comments?
If you feel like talking with an interesting guy who will answer all your questions about himself without you having to ask, oor if you are feeling discouraged or lonely for a good conversation ths is where to indulge yourself for four hours and some odd minutes of fun. Weegee was one of the great nudist camp members in New Jersey history, among other things.
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