The Beat Generation was not just important as a countercultural movement. We don’t just remember Jack Kerouac for sending kids…
The writers of the Beat Generation were not just great at composing poems or producing genre-smashing novels. They were also…
The 1940s and 50s were difficult years to be non-conformist, and that was doubly true if you were a woman.…
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As the birthplace of Western democracy, literature, and philosophy, it is hardly surprising that Greece was of such interest to…
“…You men writers always put your balls in the way of the story…get your ego out of the way and…
Announcing the first ever oral & visual history of Jerry Rubin & The Yippies - featuring Abbie Hoffman, Paul Krassner,…
Stanford University has just added a staggering 2,141 digital files relating to Allen Ginsberg to its library website. Most of…
What do Aldous Huxley and Hunter S. Thompson have in common? Both were great writers, of course. Both had a…
I hopped the BART train for the short ride under the bay from Fremont to San Francisco. It was 1995…
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