beat generation

Mysteries of The Six Gallery

Sixty-eight years ago today, six poets changed American literature forever with a powerful and now legendary reading at a former…

3 years ago

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. Better late…

3 years ago

New Beat Generation Books 2021

Though Kerouac and Cassady died more than fifty years ago and the Beat heyday was long before that, interest in…

6 years ago

What the Beats can teach us about writing

The Beat Generation was not just important as a countercultural movement. We don’t just remember Jack Kerouac for sending kids…

9 years ago

12 Essential Books About the Beat Generation

The Beat Generation are an often misunderstood group of souls. Even figuring out who and what they are is notoriously…

9 years ago

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 were obscene, they…

9 years ago

Defining Beat: Era, Location, and the Importance of Considering Women

  The Beat Generation, though small in numbers, had a profound effect on the American literary tradition. Coming into existence…

9 years ago

When was ‘Beat’ First Written?

On this blog, we've previously discussed the surprisingly difficult question of what the Beat Generation was, and later, what the…

10 years ago

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 “literary outlaws,”…

10 years ago

Beats or Beatniks

You might well wonder what a beatnik is or who the Beat Generation were. Many people do... so what is…

10 years ago

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