The links between the Beat Generation and music seem obvious, and many of them have been pretty thoroughly explored. Ginsberg…
Erik Mortenson’s Translating the Counterculture: The Reception of the Beats in Turkey examines the way the Beat Generation is taught,…
An artistic and introverted spirit, Jack Kerouac never set out to become the leader of one of the greatest literary…
Paul Maher Jr has written an intimate, interesting look at the life of Jack Kerouac – not the whole life,…
The 1950s in America was not a period known for its religious diversity. The spiritual consumerism that we know today…
For some reason, if you look back through literary history, it seems most great authors had a fondness for cats.…
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.…
Jack Kerouac was born on March 12th, 1922, meaning that today would've been his 95th birthday. Of course, he passed…
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