Allen Ginsberg and the FBI (and Secret Service)
In 1965 Allen Ginsberg flew to Cuba as part of a major poetry event hosted by the Casa de las...
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Beat Generation and How They Defined the Pop Culture in the Years to Come
The Beat Generation was born out of protest against conformism and amid desperate searches for...
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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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Who Owns the Dropper Owns the Fix: Out to Lunch with William Burroughs
It was summer 91, I think, when sharing a joint on a brick fire escape after a night of...
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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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The Beats in Greece
As the birthplace of Western democracy, literature, and philosophy, it is hardly surprising that...
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