"If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be Citizens United. I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be."

RIP Ruth Bader Ginsberg, aka Notorious RBG

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"Room 15 / Beat Hotel on the Left Bank of Paris, was the great William Burroughs. He was finishing off his novel, "Naked Lunch". This was due to be published by Maurice Girodias of Olympia Press. Burroughs was described by his friend, Allen Ginsberg, as "Satanic Bill”.

- HC

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Ruth Bader Ginsberg, describing her early career while juggling motherhood (paraphrased but close to verbatim):

“It would have been impossible for me to do what I have done if I didn't have a husband who considered what I did to be as important as what he did."

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Anne Waldman on Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith on Walt Whitman, Karel Appel paintings, forgotten lines from "America" & more - Friday's Weekly Round Up - https://t.co/mOvo56t4DH

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Beatniks, writers, and friends Hal Chase, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs, New York (1944).

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