...Claire Christoff © 2020 Claire Christoff 2020 Claire Christoff Midnight Rambler after Allen Ginsberg Mick Jagger is shopping for vegetables and he is the hottest girl I ve ever seen a rainbow of loose pills in his pockets, a smirk on those obscene lips. Totally evil. He examines a tomato...

... Mile” so clearly Mick Jagger may as well be singing it just for me, like I’m the one he’s driving to see with his head full of snow, the one he’s living for to be lying by his side. The song builds up to this point where the violins are played so hard I imagine the strings flying off the bows...

... with Halloween costumes to the appeal of the carnivorous Alice Cooper, the seductive androgyny of Mick Jagger, and the sexual thrill of vampire movies. Fiedler’s straying from literature culminated in what was to be his final critical work, 1982’s What...

... reflected back on his expe- riences as a young activist in Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties (Verso [1987] 2005), which recounts his encounters with Malcolm X, Bertrand Russell, Marlon Brando, Henry Kissinger, and Mick Jagger and includes his interview with John Lennon and Yoko...