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 ...

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

As an incredible storyteller, Bob Dylan has always recognised others' ability to convey such detailed narratives in their ...

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 ...

The jazzy experimental style of the Beat Generation writers has made their work notoriously tricky to adapt for the screen. Walter Salles' On the Road, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's Howl and ...

Quick, name a Black Beat poet. Ted Joans, a participant in Greenwich Village’s Beat Generation, counted among his friends celebrated writers Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsburg, Leroi Jones and ...

He only lived there for a year, but Beat Generation muse Neal Cassady left his mark on 2558 Champa St. in Denver. The 400-square-foot building, sandwiched between two brick houses, was a two-chair ...

The greatest writers did that - the beat generation - Kerouac, Ginsberg, Anais Nin. It's incredible. And it's more than a bookshop because it's also a monument. You know, you visit the bookshop.

The Beat Generation and Wavy Gravy From right, Wavy Gravy, entertainer and peace activist, stands with his friend, Susan Brustman, outside of Wynwood Kitchen and Bar on Feb. 21, 2013.

At the time, its belated arrival coincided with a major resurgence of interest in Burroughs, the oldest and longest surviving member of the original Beat Generation writers, the others being Jack ...

MEXICO CITY - Mexico City was a magnet in the 1950s for some of America's greatest Beat Generation writers - Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and others.