Gary Snyder

Jack Kerouac’s Visions of Gerard

By Kristin McLaughlin Without Gerard, what would have happened to Ti Jean? – Jack Kerouac[1] Visions of Gerard is Kerouac’s…

17 years ago

Modern Beat: Tom Waits

In Issue One, David S Wills looked at the songwriter Pete Doherty as a modern day Beatnik, with the promise…

17 years ago

Women of the Beat Generation

History has not been kind to the women of the Beat Generation. During the Beat era, they were largely ignored…

18 years ago

Walt Whitman and the Beats

It’s hard to read Kerouac or Ginsberg and not think of the father of American poetry, Walt Whitman. Well, it’s…

18 years ago

Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan

The relationship between Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan is often viewed as paternal in nature, which is to say that…

19 years ago

Six Beat Tales

A few classic Beat Generation stories.

19 years ago

Know Your Beats

A very brief guide to the players of the Beat Generation.

19 years ago

Buddhism and the Beats

Jack Kerouac… “He was the first one I heard chanting the ‘Three Refuges’ in Sanskrit, with a voice like Frank…

19 years ago

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