The Saints of Solana Beach

July 29, 2025

From Kathy Acker’s diaries, c. July—August 1972, while living in Solana Beach just before meeting Peter Gordon.

Meanwhile, in William T. Vollmann’s “Violet Hair: A Heideggerian Tragedy,” from The Rainbow Stories:

What happened to all the punk postmodernists bumming around Solana Beach? I suppose in both these cases they moved to San Francisco.

Two more, both from Sam’s play Can’t Hear Well:

and:

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