Talk:Herbert Huncke

message: Does this need to be categorised as Bisexual Writers and Bisexual Writers From The United States? Ianwilliams 17:27, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Bisexual Writers category

message: This article needs work. It isn't objective and doesn't cite any sources. It reads like a lauditory magazine article. Griot 18:13, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Clean Up Notice June, 2007

message: True, but misleading without pointing out he grew up upper middle class in Chicago.72.209.63.226 (talk) 18:13, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "street hustler, high school dropout and drug addict" 

message: I updated the "article needs additional citations for verification" notice. On Wikipedia, these beatniks get treated like Catholic saints. Each one has a wee little personal mythology. Each one performed a wee little literary miracle. For example, what are you supposed to make of the following passage from the article? 
:Huncke used the word "Beat" to describe someone living with no money and few prospects. "Beat to my socks," he said. Huncke coined the phrase in a conversation with Jack Kerouac, who was interested in how their generation would be remembered. "I'm beat," was Huncke's reply, meaning tired and beat to his socks. Kerouac used the term to describe an entire generation.
Is this taken from a memoir or something? It needs a citation. Without a citation, it sounds to me like something an undergraduate literature student invented on Saturday night. Chisme (talk) 20:53, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Needs citations

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message: David Sedaris's newly published diaries, Theft by Finding (2017) are a welcome antidote to the endless Beat self-mythologizing in this naive and gushy article. Sedaris worked as a laborer in the years before he was discovered. One job was helping Huncke move, and Huncke treated the moving men, mere ordinary people who weren't poets, like dirt, exactly the way a plutocrat would have. Nice Ivy League boys like Ginsburg and Kerouac, and rich kids like Burroughs, were always meeting some ordinary dirtbag like Huncke, and fantasizing that they had met The People. Or something. Profhum (talk) 23:02, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article full of PR, inaccurate/ read David Sedaris on Huncke