Gregory Corso's Funny Forgeries

About this episode

The episode explores the antics of Beat poet Gregory Corso and the implications of authenticity in the book world.

Ah, the hi-jinks of Gregory Corso! This New York Tale has everything: stealing from friends, mob bosses, broken record collections, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs (sort of), and what must have been the great charm of the Beat poet Gregory Corso. All of this leads to some (semi-) profound questions on authenticity in the book world. If you have a Corso tale, we'd love to hear it! Drop us a note at: hello@rarebookchat.com Enjoy the show!

People in this episode

Hosts: Jeremy O'Connor, Michael DiRuggiero

Topics covered

• authenticity
• Beat poets
• New York tales
• forgery
• literary history

Keywords

• Gregory Corso
• Beat Generation
• forgery
• authenticity
• literature

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