WEBB, John Edgar & Gypsy Lou (eds).

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The Outsider. The complete run of the avant-garde literary magazine which championed the early work of Charles Bukowski and published work by Jack Kerouac, Diane di Prima, Henry Miller, Dick Higgins, William Burroughs, and many more. Located in the heart of New Orleans's French Quarter, John Webb and Gypsy Lou's "small, cash-starved press was an inky crossroads that brought together a failed jewel thief, a devoted Vieux Carre street artist, an out of place oil company, and a famously drunken poet in a modern literary triumph" (Poetry Foundation). The Webbs laboriously printed their publications on a traditional hand press, in contrast to the rapid mimeo magazines which were popular at the time.

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