While still an undergraduate Linick launched an American " little magazine " , '' Nomad '' , working with his co-editor , Donald Factor ( the son of Max Factor , Jr. ) , on a number of issues , including the 1962 finale , '' Nomad/New York '' . Linick had enjoyed a great interest in the burgeoning poetry scene for a number of years . '' Nomad '' offered a home to the early work of Charles Bukowski . '' Nomad '' s inaugural issue in 1959 featured several of Bukowski 's poems . A year later , '' Nomad '' published one of Bukowski 's best known essays , '' Manifesto : A Call for Own Critics . '' Because of '' Nomad '' and his connections to '' avant garde '' poetry , Linick was present during the 1957 '' Howl '' trial in San Francisco . He watched coverage of Kennedy 's assassination on Allen Ginsberg 's TV in 1963 . During summers spent in New York he also got to know many of the authors who dominated the anthologies in subsequent years . Knowing of his interest in such affairs , his mentor at UCLA , George Mowry , suggested he choose a dissertation topic from this world . The result was '' A History of the American Literary Avant-Garde Since World War II '' . In 2017 Linick published in '' Beat Scene '' magazine some of the original research for this dissertation , including responses to a questionnaire returned to him by Jack Kerouac , Alan Ginsberg , Gregory Corso , and Charles Bukovsky . The event was of particular interest to Beat scholar James Campbell , who wrote about Linick 's article in '' The Times Literary Supplement ''
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