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Simon Callow examines the years between Citizen Kane and Macbeth. This book goes beyond his unraveling film career. It tells of his numerous failed attempts in careers besides film. Imagine a world without the impact of Citizen Kane, if he had succeded and became a stage musician.

I CELEBRATE myself,

And what I assume you shall assume,

For every atom beloning to me, as good belongs to you.
- WALT WHITMAN from Leaves of Grass

Published to coinside with the fiftieth anniversay of Howl and Other Poems, this new attempt to decipher some of what is Allen Ginsberg is the only one to cover his entire life. Ginsberg's unpublished journals were used largely to accurately describe the life and times of this can't get enough of figure.

On July 28, 1841, the body of a young women was found floating in the Hudson River. Later she was discovered to be a cigar salesgirl who had gone missing three days earlier. New York in the mid-nineteenth century was interested why her murder could not be solved, when a struggling writer named Edgar Allen Poe decided to take on the case. Thirty-one year old Poe had just published "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." A year later desparate for success, Poe sent his famous detective, C. Auguste Dupin on the case of a liftime, involving a crime that changed the city.