Beat Generation

Naked Lunch

Naked Lunch

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NAKED LUNCH, the controversial masterpiece by Beat Generation founding father William S. Burroughs, has the distinction of being the last novel banned in the United States. Decried as obscene, the novel uses frank and extremely graphic depictions ...


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Collected Letters, 1944-1967

Collected Letters, 1944-1967

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Encompassing more than twenty years in the life of one of the leading lights of the Beat Generation, this collection of more than two hundred letters includes Cassady`s correspondence with his wife, Carolyn, as well as with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsb Copyr


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I Celebrate Myself

I Celebrate Myself

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Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Howl, an all-encompassing portrait of the influential Beat-generation poet draws on interviews with members of his inner circle as well as his journals and correspondence to discuss such Copyr


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Howl, and Other Poems

Howl, and Other Poems

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Ginsberg's celebrated 1956 poem brought the writing of the Beat Generation to widespread attention. In the words of a critic who was there, when Ginsberg read Howl aloud for the first time at the Six Gallery in San Francisco in October of 1955, th...


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Jack`s Book

Jack`s Book

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An oral compendium traces the Beat Generation icon`s life at home and on the road, sharing his experiences with his friends and lovers as well as a series of famous contemporaries, including Allen Ginsberg, Gore Vidal, and William Burroughs.


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The Fall of America

The Fall of America

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Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), one of the major icons of the Beat Generation, was most famous for his landmark poem HOWL, published in 1956.


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