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Guilty of Everything: The Autobiography of Herbert Huncke
Hardcover
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210 pages
Published
May 1st 1990
by Paragon House Publishers
(first published 1987)
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Herbert Huncke was a Times Square hustler and junkie who hung out with all the Beats in the '40s and is supposedly the one who got Kerouac thinking about spontaneous writing. Not counting Gregory Corso's poems, before I read "Go" this was my favorite book from that scene. It's very practical, telling all the hard knocks Huncke received backstage over the years as a sensitive, habitual mooch, told without any literary pretense, with a timeless, streetwise intelligence.
Huncke's writing style is like his speaking style: precise and direct. It is fully of honesty. Dig it!
Hustling, dope, 20th-century queer culture, whatever the subject matter it flows like music in Huncke's narrative prose style.
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