About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 66. Chapters: Greenwich Village, Lenny Bruce, Beatnik, William Carlos Williams, Hotel Chelsea, Kenneth Patchen, North Beach, San Francisco, Pull My Daisy, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Creeley, Lucien Carr, John Gilmore, Robert Duncan, Joan Vollmer, Ed Dorn, City Lights Bookstore, Charles Olson, Gia-Fu Feng, Justin W. Brierly, Bill Cannastra, Victor Wong, Judy Henske, Ken Nordine, Ray Nelson, Shakespeare and Company, Kirby Doyle, Beat Hotel, The Gaslight Cafe, Six Gallery reading, Dreamachine, Eric "Big Daddy" Nord, Joyce Johnson, George Whitman, Cedar Tavern, Seymour Krim, Enrico Banducci, John Clellon Holmes, James Grauerholz, Auke Hulst, Better Books, Vaclav Hrab, Josephine Miles, Bob McFadden, How to Speak Hip, 1001 Ways to Beat the Draft, International Poetry Incarnation, Deliberate Prose, Babs Gonzales, Walt Curtis, New York Poets Theatre, Hettie Jones, Tangerinn, Circle Magazine, Daliel's Bookstore, Villa Muniria. Excerpt: The Beat Generation is a group of American post-WWII writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, as well as the cultural phenomena that they both documented and inspired. Central elements of "Beat" culture included experimentation with drugs and alternative forms of sexuality, an interest in Eastern religion, a rejection of materialism, and the idealizing of exuberant, unexpurgated means of expression and being. Even still the Generation is in motion. Allen Ginsberg's Howl (1956), William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch (1959) and Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957) are among the best known examples of Beat literature. Both Howl and Naked Lunch were the focus of obscenity trials that ultimately helped to liberalize publishing in the United States. The members of the Beat Generation developed a reputation as new bohemian hedonists, who celebrated non-conformity and spontaneous creativity. The original "Beat Ge...
