The original Beat movement of the 1950s and ‘60s gave us Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road,” Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl,” Michael McClure’s play “The Beard” and reams of other lively ...

In the 1950s, North Beach became the center for the Beat Generation, made up of artists, writers and philosophers rebelling against buttoned-up societal norms.

Beat Generation writers, including Jack Kerouac, spent time during the 1950s in Washington fire lookouts. The solitary summers often provided inspiration. Skip to content ...

Using original film clips and interviews, this film illustrates the 1950s social movement termed the Beat Generation. Disillusioned with post-World War II America, Beat Generation writers and ...

Newly discovered photographs of leading figures from one of the United States’ most distinctive cultural movements, the Beat Generation, will kick off the Palm Beach Photographic Centre’s 35th ...

Neeli Cherkovski, a prolific poet and denizen of beatnik cafes who chronicled the literary ethos of bohemian culture in biographies of Beat Generation writers, including his friends Charles ...

Discover the NYC homes and haunts of 10 famous poets, from Allen Ginsberg to Patti Smith to Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau and the Beat Generation writers.

For the uninitiated, the so-called Beat Generation was a term given to a subculture of mostly American writers and poets of the era that include On The Road writer Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg ...

Third Mind Books takes a specialized approach to bookselling in Ann Arbor, offering first-edition and rare Beat Generation ...

The first and last written words of writer William S. Burroughs form the basis of this superb adaptation of Queer, a novel written in the early ’50s that, for myriad reasons, remained ...

Caleb Carr, author of historical bestseller ‘The Alienist,’ dies at 68. After a troubled childhood among Beat generation writers, he explored the dark side of human nature as a novelist and ...

The late Alan Watts, a philosopher, scholar, speaker, writer, and seminal figure in the counterculture of the Beat Generation, is getting a new publishing deal more than 50 years after his death. ...