Sundays at Slugs'

[ghost of miles]

Poet Charles Simic talks to his brother about the East Village scene of the 1960s:

Sundays at Slugs'

[AllenLowe]

I was but a young boy of about 15 or so when I went there a few times; and I may have mentioned this before, but I was flabbergasted to realize many years later (because, after reading about it I remembered him quite distinctly) that I had seen and been right near Jean Genet, who was also spending time at Slugs in those days.