Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 684, my conversation with the late Michael Schumacher, author of Dharma Lion (University of Minnesota Press), a biography of the 20th century American poet Allen Ginsberg. Michael Schumacher died on December 29, 2025 at age 75.
Air date: December 9, 2020.
Schumacher (1950–2025) wrote extensively about Allen Ginsberg and the Beat Generation. His articles, reviews, and essays have appeared in newspapers and magazines across the country. He was editor of Family Business,a collection of letters between Allen and Louis Ginsberg, and The Essential Ginsberg, a volume of the best of Ginsberg’s poems, essays, songs, letters, journal entries, interviews, and photographs.
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