"Why don't you take off your clothes?" Allen asked me. It was no overture; merely a challenge and a joke. I felt no closer to the naked Ginsberg; he might as well have put on a winter overcoat.

Neal Cassady EstateNeal Cassady as a young man ... left a lasting impression on the people he met — especially two of them, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Kerouac and Cassady struck up ...

Famed poet defended marijuana, helped a woman who fell, and both inspired and horrified an audience during brief visit ...