Leon Horton

arts and counterculture journalist

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Kentucky Boneman: An Interview with Ron Whitehead (Part One)

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'The Burroughs-Warhol Connection' by Victor Bockris' (featuring a long form interview with the author by Leon Horton) is available now on Amazon

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'Gregory Corso: Ten Times a Poet'

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Under the Counterculture: An Interview with Leon Horton

By Michael Limnios Leon Horton is a UK-based countercultural writer, editor, and interviewer. He is the editor of the acclaimed essay/memoir collection, Gregory Corso: Ten Times a Poet (Roadside Press, 2024), and recently completed a long-form interview with author Victor Bockris for the forthcoming publication, The Burroughs-Warhol Connection (Beatdom Books, 2025). His writing has been…

Under the Counterculture: An Interview with Leon Horton

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"Gregory Corso: Ten Times a Poet" Out Now on Amazon

My new book, “Gregory Corso: Ten Times a Poet,” a collection of essays, memoirs, poetry, and photography in celebration of the legendary Beat Poet is available now on Amazon. Featuring contributions from such Beat Generation luminaries as Anne Waldman, Neeli Cherkovski, Gerald Nicosia, Raymond Foye, Kaye McDonough, Ron Whitehead, Kirby Olson, Kurt Hemmer, Rosemary Manno, and Ed Sanders.

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Bomb-Blast and Attitude: Everything You Need to Know About Jeff Nuttall

Provocative, uncompromising, disturbing and violently funny, countercultural artist Jeff Nuttall was a great many things – actor, teacher, writer, jazz preacher – to a great many people thanks to his work with My Own Mag, The People Show and Bomb Culture. Over a career spanning more than 40 books and a multitude of mediums, controversy, outrage and calls for his dissolution were never far behind…

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Gerald Nicosia: In Search of Jack Kerouac in the Bleak Inhuman Loneliness

Gerald Nicosia: In Search of Jack Kerouac in the Bleak Inhuman Loneliness

You would have to be dead or in a coma to have missed the fact that March 12, 2022, marked the centenary of the birth of writer and lonesome traveller Jack Kerouac, author of On the Road. To mark the occasion, Leon Horton talks to the writer and scholar Gerald Nicosia, author of Kerouac: The Last Quarter Century, Beat Scrapbook,and the sublime and authoritative Memory Babe: A Critical Biography…

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Books, Beats, and Badass Journalists: An Interview with David S. Wills

Books, Beats, and Badass Journalists: An Interview with David S. Wills

David S. Wills is the founder and editor of Beatdom Books and the author of Scientologist! William S. Burroughs and the ‘Weird Cult’ (2013), Crossing India the Hard Way (2018) and World Citizen: Allen Ginsberg as Traveller (2019). His latest work High White Notes: The Rise and Fall of Gonzo Journalism, an in-depth analysis of the writings of hell-raiser journalist Hunter S. Thompson, has hit the…

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Charles Bukowski: Only Tough Guys Shit Themselves in Public Charles Bukowski, like most writers, was never happier than when he was alone at the typewriter; beer-in-hand, glugging into the night, hiding in plain language. But writers, especially poets, can rarely afford to let their work speak for itself. Dragged from their caves into the tyranny of the light, they are often pushed into the…

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Gregory Corso Exhibition

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Kicking Against the Pricks: An Interview with Chris Kelso

Kicking Against the Pricks: An Interview with Chris Kelso

Chris Kelso is an award-winning writer, the author of nine novels, three short story collections and editor of five anthologies. His writing, celebrated for its transgressive style and dysfunctional subject matter, has appeared in Evergreen Review, Sensitive Skin and 3AM Magazine. The British Fantasy Society described The Dregs Trilogy – a degenerate platter of snuff movies, psycho killers and…

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My interview with Chris Kelso, author of 'Burroughs and Scotland' is available now at International Times...

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Charles Bukowski: Only Tough Guys Shit Themselves in Public

Proud and pleased as punch to be featured in a new Chapbook from Newington Blue Press: a tribute to the poet and author Charles Bukowski.

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Patti Smith by Victor Bockris Fantastic feature and review of Victor Bockris' biography on Patti Smith...

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Fall Monday Playlist #02 - Drink & Drugs

Fall Monday Playlist #02 – Drink & Drugs

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I found a publication on Issuu that I think you'll love

I found a publication on Issuu that I think you’ll love

Check this out: https://issuu.com/davidwills0/docs/beatdom_20

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