ChatGPT Describes the Beats
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The Death of David Kammerer: 80 Years Later
The story of Lucien Carr killing David Kammerer is well-trodden ground in Beat circles, but like...
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Mysteries of The Six Gallery
Sixty-eight years ago today, six poets changed American literature forever with a powerful and now...
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Beat Books Published in 2023
We’re over halfway through the year, so it’s a bit late for this, but here we go nonetheless....
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New Beat Generation Books 2021
Though Kerouac and Cassady died more than fifty years ago and the Beat heyday was long before...
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What the Beats can teach us about writing
The Beat Generation was not just important as a countercultural movement. We don’t just remember...
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12 Essential Books About the Beat Generation
The Beat Generation are an often misunderstood group of souls. Even figuring out who and what they...
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Beat Family Values: The Typical American Family, and the Beats’ Roll in its Downfall
The Beat Movement scared the hell out of America. After all, the Beats were dirty, they...
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Defining Beat: Era, Location, and the Importance of Considering Women
The Beat Generation, though small in numbers, had a profound effect on the American...
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When was ‘Beat’ First Written?
On this blog, we’ve previously discussed the surprisingly difficult question of what the...
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Review: The Best Minds of My Generation
There are so many books about the Beat Generation that focus on the writers’ roles as rebels and...
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Beats or Beatniks
You might well wonder what a beatnik is or who the Beat Generation were. Many people do… so...
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