The Beat Generation emerged as a response to both ... This was a state of being that many Beat writers went through. For example, Jack Kerouac wrote about it in his famous novel On the Road.

He is the author of The Beat Face of God: The Beat Generation Writers as Spirit Guides and Kerouac’s Nashua Connection. January 2, 2021 at 12:23 p.m. A quick introduction: I am a near 30-year ...

The Poetics of the New American Poetry (Allen 1973) and New American Story (Allen 1965) would be primary resources for further research: There are similarities between the use of the vernacular in the ...

In her book Off the Road (1990), Carolyn Cassady, who has died aged 90, charted her extraordinary life with the Beat writers Neal Cassady, her husband, and Jack Kerouac, her lover. Cassady was an ...

The exhibition focuses on prominent figures in the Beat Generation during the 1960s. Included are images of Bob Thompson and friends, as well as the publications Hymns to St. Geryon by Michael McClure ...

Andrew O'Hagan looks at a critical point in the life of Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac. In 1956 he spent spent 63 soul-searching days as a fire-watcher on Washington state's Desolation Peak.