Beat generation

A new book of photographs by Burt Glinn – featuring a recently discovered essay by Jack Kerouac – captures the beat generation in all their jazz-heavy, late-night glory

Writers of the Beat Generation. These authors rejected conformist society and sought to make their own way.

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“You don’t have to be right. All you have to do is be candid.” TRQ: Allen Ginsberg, Born June 3, 1926 Beat Generation writer and poet Allen Ginsberg, best known for his 1956 poem “Howl,” was born on June 3, 1926. A counterculture pacifist, Ginsberg is closely associated with writers and artists William Burroughs and […] More

As anyone who has read Jack Kerouac knows, his novels are filled with real people and real events that have been reflected through the prism of his imagination. Over sixteen books Kerouac told a fictional autobiography through his alter ego Jack Dulouz--from childhood memories of his older brother's death (Visions of Gerard), to being a washed-up drunk on the verge of a nervous breakdown (Big Sur), he used his life as the source of his writing...

A new catalogue of Kerouac's paintings is crucial in studying the overlap in his investment in writing and painting.

Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady, San Francisco, 1963. photo: Allen Ginsberg Estate AG: next – oh yeah, Marlowe – ( (page) twenty-five) – “Come Live With Me And Be My Love” – remember that? – Everybody read that? This was my version of that. This is to Neal Cassady, but it isn’t very much in […]

Browse Bob Dylan and Rolling Thunder Revue, Ken Regan Archive, 1975 latest photos. View images and find out more about Bob Dylan and Rolling Thunder Revue, Ken Regan Archive, 1975 at Getty Images.

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The two met in 1963 and they instantly hit it off. They collaborated together and Ginsberg would go on tour with Dylan on his 'Rolling Thunder Revue'.