John Sampas, executor of the Jack Kerouac Estate, has passed away peacefully at home in Greenwich, Connecticut. A memorial will…
On this blog, we've previously discussed the surprisingly difficult question of what the Beat Generation was, and later, what the…
In 2014, the world of Beat Studies was rocked by the discovery of the Joan Anderson letter. Believed lost at…
Sometime in the early 1950s, the Beat Generation helped bring Buddhism to the West, or at least they popularized it…
There are so many books about the Beat Generation that focus on the writers’ roles as rebels and “literary outlaws,”…
You might well wonder what a beatnik is or who the Beat Generation were. Many people do... so what is…
Jack Kerouac was a huge inspiration for Bob Dylan, the winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature, and a…
Jack Kerouac's novels, particularly On the Road, are popular all around the world. When Allen Ginsberg arrived in China in…
Almost two years ago the world of Beat studies was rocked by the discovery of a seemingly lost piece of…
There is much about the Beat Generation that is shrouded in confusion. Oftentimes it stems from wishful thinking on the…
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