Beat generation

Filial Poetry

By Allen Ginsberg, Louis Ginsberg, Stephen Braitman,

From an interview conducted by Stephen Braitman with Allen Ginsberg and his father, Louis Ginsberg, in 1974. The interview is included in First Thought, a collection of conversations with Allen…

The beat degeneration

By Harper’s Staff,

My humble self

By Lewis Nordan,

The forgotten killer

By Vince Passaro,

The work of William S. Burroughs, once dangerous, is in danger itself

I sing of Norman P.

By Robert Stewart, Rebekah Presson Mosby,

The delights of literary lecturing

By Kingsley Amis,

The alone generation

By Alfred Kazin,

A comment on the fiction of the 'fifties

The old original beatnik

By John Fischer,

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