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“... The laws of hospitality are older than the laws of the United States of America!’ Diane diPrima shouted at the FBI agents who came to her cold-water apartment in Manhattan in 1956, looking for a young dissident writer from Yugoslavia. It was her first encounter with ‘the Big Reality that had undone so much of Hollywood, of New York ...”

“... contains a fascinating interview with Joanne Kyger by Miles, and there’s a set of haiku by Diane diPrima on display, but that’s the extent of it for women. Women, Burroughs once explained to Ginsberg, only partly in jest, are bad news: ‘Steer clear of ’em. They got poison juices dripping all over ...”

“... walls’. His friends did help. In between hospitalisations, he spent time in New York with Diane diPrima and Amiri Baraka (then LeRoi Jones), and renewed his friendship with O’Hara, whom he had met in 1956 at the Cambridge Poets’ Theatre – O’Hara was acting in John Ashbery’s The Compromise, or Queen ...”