Beat generation

The literary world has become more gender-inclusive since the beats of the 1950s. Just as well, because it’s jarring to find yourself in love with a world that doesn’t love you back

A new catalogue of Kerouac's paintings is crucial in studying the overlap in his investment in writing and painting.

See the 45 best photos of New York's Greenwich Village in the '60s.

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Sunday Reading: The Beat Generation || 5:00 A.M. Photograph by Bruce Davidson / Magnum The poet Allen Ginsberg was born ninety-two years ago today, on June 3rd, 1926. To celebrate, we’re bringing you pieces about the Beat Generation and the ways it changed American culture. Subscribers can read Jane Kramer’s two - part Profile of Ginsberg, which follows him across America, from Greenwich Village to San Francisco. In…

The Beat Generation.

A group of beatniks sit in an apartment , New York, New York, December 5, 1959. Pictured, foreground from left, Dian Doyle and Kirby Doyle ; far side of table, from left, Mimi Margaux, Stella...

The following article is from the book Uncle John's Heavy Duty Bathroom Reader. The Beats were America's first hipsters. But what were they, like, really about, man? THE OTHER SIDE OF AMERICA One night in 1948, two students at new York's Columbia University, John Clellon Holmes and Jack Kerouac, were hanging out talking about what they thought was wrong with the modern world -the constant threat of nuclear war, the hollowness of suburbia, and the stifling academic mainstream. At one point…

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See the 45 best photos of New York's Greenwich Village in the '60s.

The Beat Generation is a group of American post-WWII writers and poets from 1950. Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg are among the best examples of Beat Literature.

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American poet and leading figure of the Beat Generation Allen Ginsberg photographed in 1970.

Bob Dylan snd Allen Ginsberg on the grave of Jack Kerouac.