‘Ginsberg To Ginsberg’: Two Generations ‘Howl’

http://www.npr.org/2010/11/23/131537497/-ginsberg-to-ginsberg-two-generations-howl

I admit that my initial attraction to Allen Ginsberg was because we shared a last name — a name that he had already made famous with his writing. In my early, dying-to-be-published writer’s brain, that meant there was hope for me, too, if only because someone might think we were related. But then I read“Howl” in high school and fell in love with the words.