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- The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac, by Joyce Johnson. Let’s start with Jack Kerouac. There are dozens of books about his life and work, but one of the most interesting is Joyce Johnson’s recent work, The Voice is All.
- Jack’s Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac, by Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee. While we’re looking at Kerouac, this nearly 30-year-old book took the novel approach of exploring his life through the voice of those who knew him.
- Naked Angels: The Lives and Literature of the Beat Generation, by John Tytell. This is one of the earliest books about the Beat Generation, and certainly one of the first books to take them seriously as literary figures rather than a cultural sideshow.
- Best Minds of My Generation: A Literary History of the Beats, by Allen Ginsberg and Bill Morgan (ed) It may seem odd to put such a new book on the list, but I have rarely been as impressed with a text as with this one.
The Beat Generation was a literary subculture movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-World War II era. [1] The bulk of their work was published and popularized by Silent Generationers in the 1950s, better known as Beatniks. The central elements of Beat culture are the ...
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Holmes noted Kerouac's comment, that the entire generation was beat, as the first use of the term “Beat Generation.” In 1952, Holmes published a famous article in The New York Times, “This Is the Beat Generation.” In it, he expands on these ideas, differentiating between the Lost Generation of the 1920s and his own, calling attention ...
Jan 1, 1971 · “An excellent, knowledgeable, and culturally important book tracing the root beginnings of the Beat Generation—and telling many of today’s disenchanted young how they got where they are and what went before.” Larry L. King “The most illuminating guide so far to The Beat Generation.
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Mar 2, 2017 · March 12 marks the birthday of poet and novelist Jack Kerouac, who was a leading figure in the literary movement known as the Beat Generation in the 1950's.The Beats, which included poet Allen Ginsberg and author William S. Burroughs, were iconoclastic writers, experimenting with form and depicting explicit subject matter such as sex, drugs, and hedonism, which made them highly controversial ...
