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

The literary world has become more gender-inclusive since the beats of the 1950s. Just as well, because it’s jarring to find yourself in love with a world that doesn’t love you back

Burt Glinn shot the Beats in New York’s jazz clubs, coffee shops and Village bars.

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

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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'.

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

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...

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 […]