
By Beth U
I’ve been reading bits of Beat memoir here and there. Recalling her coming-of-age during the Beat-era, writer Janine Pommy Vega describes her virginity as a "hindrance." At 16, she and a friend staked out the Cedar Bar (the popular Beat hangout in Greenwich Village) to meet Gregory Corso. A few days later, they visit him and Peter Orlovsky in their shared apartment. As Vega waits to have sex with Orlovsky (a given for a female fan?), Corso takes her friend into a...
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