William S Burroughs, Carol Kauffman, Allen Ginsberg, Jean Genet, Chicago 1986. Some images from the new book “Chicago 1968: The Calm Before the Storm” by Terry Southern and photographer Michael Cooper, edited by their sons, Nile Southern and Adam Cooper, available from Genius Books.
From the publishers notes “In the late summer of 1968, writers Terry Southern, William S. Burroughs, and Jean Genet were deployed by Esquire magazine to cover the Democratic Convention in Chicago. With photographer Michael Cooper and poet Allen Ginsberg inseparable parts of their coterie, the “fab 5” (as Michael Simmons dubs them in his introduction) were unflappable, capturing the calm and riding out the storm…”
Terry Southern’s original Esquire text “Grovin’ in Chi” is there in its entirety and Allen is quoted throughout, alongside ones by Abbie Hoffman, Jean Genet, Richard Seaver and others.
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