SOURCE: “Plug, Project, Repeat,” in Partisan Review, Vol. 27, 1960, pp. 746–47.

In the following review of The Happy Birthday of Death, Fraser gives Corso's writing a mixed review, stating that Corso has talent but his views are extreme.

I listened about a year ago, on the British Broadcasting Corporation's Third Programme, to a dialogue between either [Allen] Ginsberg or [Gregory] Corso, I forget which, and an old acquaintance of mine, now in the United States, Donald Carne-Ross. Carne-Ross looks rather like Sherlock Holmes, and has a gimlet-like intelligence; on this occasion, he was using it to bore holes in the sea. Carne-Ross is not what I would call a kindly man, but in England the tender side of his nature used to come out in keeping, in his rather shabby rooms in Earl's Court, a pet rat. His crisp, brisk, biscuity English voice offered, however, no crumbs of comfort to...