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INTERVIEW | Are those typewriters still smoking?
Jonah interviews John Campbell McMillan, author of ‘Smoking Typewriters,’ the definitive work on the ’60s underground press. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | February 5, 2018 An associate professor of history at Georgia State University in Atlanta, with … Continue reading
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Tagged Interview, John McMillian, Jonah Raskin, Rag Blog, Rag Bloggers, Sixties, Smoking Typewriters, The Rag, Underground Press
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John McMillian : For Manning Marable
Manning Marable. Photo by Mario Tama / Getty Images. Renowned African-American scholar, Dr. Manning Marable, 60, died April 1 of complications from pneumonia, three days before the publication of his long-awaited biography of Malcolm X, a book he had been … Continue reading
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Tagged African-American, Authors, Black History, Colombia University, Deaths, John McMillian, Malcolm X, Manning Marable, Scholars
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John McMillian : Gimme Shelter: Altamont and the Underground Press
Hell’s Angel takes the cue. The contrasting coverage of the disastrous Altamont rock festival by the Berkeley Tribe and the San Francisco Examiner tells us much about why the underground press became such a force. Image from morethings.com.When America was … Continue reading
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Tagged Altamont, American History, Berkeley Tribe, John McMillian, Journalism, Rolling Stones, Sixties, Underground Press
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BOOKS | John McMillian’s ‘Smoking Typewriters’
The curious case of the 1960s underground press. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | February 21, 2011 John McMillian, author of Smoking Typewriters, will appear at BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar Blvd, Austin, at 7 p.m., Friday, Feb. 25, … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Books, John McMillian, Jonah Raskin, Marshall Bloom, New Left, Ray Mungo, Sixties, Smoking Typewriters, Space City, The Rag, The Rag Blog, Thorne Dreyer, Underground Press, Yippies
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