Beyond Jazz: Kerouac and Music
The links between the Beat Generation and music seem obvious, and many of them have been pretty...
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Review: Translating the Counterculture
Erik Mortenson’s Translating the Counterculture: The Reception of the Beats in Turkey examines the...
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After Me, The Deluge: Considering Kerouac’s Final Statement
An artistic and introverted spirit, Jack Kerouac never set out to become the leader of one of the...
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Review: I Am The Revolutionary
Paul Maher Jr has written an intimate, interesting look at the life of Jack Kerouac – not the...
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The Intersection of Buddhism and the Beat Generation
The 1950s in America was not a period known for its religious diversity. The spiritual consumerism...
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Cool Cats: Beat Poets and their Feline Friends
For some reason, if you look back through literary history, it seems most great authors had a...
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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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The Best Beat Generation Letter Collections
The writers of the Beat Generation were not just great at composing poems or producing...
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The Beat Generation and Mental Hospitals
The 1940s and 50s were difficult years to be non-conformist, and that was doubly true if you were...
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Kerouac at 95
Jack Kerouac was born on March 12th, 1922, meaning that today would’ve been his 95th...
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John Sampas
John Sampas, executor of the Jack Kerouac Estate, has passed away peacefully at home in Greenwich,...
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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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