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Aug 24, 1994 · This was Herbert Huncke, who was born into a middle-class family in Greenfield, Massachusetts on January 9, 1915 and grew up in Chicago. As a teenager he was drawn to the underbelly of city life, and quickly began learning how to support himself as a professional drifter and small-time thief. A small and unthreatening lawbreaker, he embodied a ...
Aug 9, 1996 · Mr. Huncke, whose longtime companion, Louis Cartwright, was killed in 1994, is survived by his half brother, Dr. Brian Huncke of Chicago. Share full article. Herbert Huncke, charismatic street ...
Aug 1, 2015 · Muse and mentor to Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac—who said of him, “Huncke is the greatest storyteller I know, an absolute genius at it”— Herbert Huncke steps out of the shadow of his more famous peers in this absorbing and tender biography by Hilary Holladay.
Sep 4, 2013 · Herbert Huncke, heretofore a footnote in biographies of the Beats, has long deserved his own biography, and in American Hipster (Magnus Books), Hilary Holladay, a renowned Kerouac scholar, has given us a fascinating portrait of the man who gave the Beat movement its name. Born in 1915, Huncke was raised in Chicago by ill-matched middle-class ...
Jul 13, 2015 · How Herbert Huncke talked his way into the Kinsey Report… D uring the years before he met William Burroughs and Burroughs’s intellectual friends, Herbert Huncke (rhymes with monkey) was having the adventures that would gain him admission into the Beat Movement’s inner circle and become the basis for many of his stories. He couldn’t know ...
Feb 15, 2012 · Huncke's work is a vital part of Beat literature, but until now it has remained relatively unknown. The Herbert Huncke Reader includes the full texts of Huncke's long-out-of-print classics Huncke's Journal and The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, excerpts from his autobiography, Guilty of Everything, and a wide selection from his unpublished letters ...
Jun 14, 2024 · Hilary Holladay’s biography of Herbert Huncke provides valuable insight into a person and world that were begging to be explored. American Hipster: A Life of Herbert Huncke, The Times Square Hustler Who Inspired the Beat Movement by Hilary Holladay. Magnus Books, 400 pp., $17.95. By Troy Pozirekides
