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Rami Shamir

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TRAINTOPOKIPSE

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Contemporary, Gay and Lesbian, Fiction

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William S. Burroughs James Joyce Henry Miller ...more

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Rami Shamir is the author of TRAIN TO POKIPSE, the novel that's been called "a Catcher in the Rye for the new century." Bookending a literary canon of twentieth century masters that includes Samuel Beckett, Henry Miller, Kathy Acker, and William S. Burroughs, Shamir—the final author of legendary publisher Barney Rosset—was recently illuminated as "the last disciple of the Grove Press Empire" in a Hopes and Fears Magazine feature. Well-known as an activist with Occupy Wall Street, his work has appeared in Adbusters, Evergreen Review, and The Brooklyn Rail. He has been written about or interviewed in the Huffington Post, PRINT Magazine, Detroit Metro Times, the Brooklyn Rail, and Blotterature.

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Cocaine, Occupy, and drag: The last book edited by the head of the Grove Press Empire

HOPES AND FEARS MAGAZINE,
SEPTEMBER 2015

Cocaine, Occupy, and drag: The last book edited by the head of the Grove Press empire

The last disciple of the Grove Press empire, Rami Shamir, recounts finishing his book with a dying Barney Rosset, the publisher of Naked Lunch, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and Tropic of Cancer.

AUTHOR: Dale Eisinger

Rami Shamir was couch surfing in New York City and wearing Read more of this blog post »

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Published on December 21, 2015 23:05 • Tags: allen-ginsberg, barney-rosset, catcher-in-the-rye, coming-of-age, dale-eisinger, grove-press, henry-miller, hopes-and-fears, jack-kerouac, literary-fiction, occupy, pokipse, salinger, samuel-beckett, train-to-pokipse, tropic-of-cancer, william-s-burroughs

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Train to Pokipse
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Rami Shamir (Goodreads Author),

Micah White (Goodreads Author) (Introduction)

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Rami’s Quotes

“So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X [Japanese-Language Edition].

tags: accomplishment, action, impetus, inspirational

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“Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”
― Voltaire

tags: denial, fear, reality, truth, truth-hurts, truth-quotes, truths

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“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
― Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV

tags: dissent, freedom-of-thought, heresy

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“The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.”
― Voltaire

tags: inspirational

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“Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.”
― Voltaire

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