Beat generation

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

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The Beat Generation.

A group of beatniks sit in an apartment , New York, New York, December 5, 1959. Pictured, foreground from left, Dian Doyle and Kirby Doyle ; far side of table, from left, Mimi Margaux, Stella...

Neal and Jack, On the Road buddies

robbie robertson, michael mcclure, bob dylan, allen ginsberg — dale smith (san francisco, 1965)

Jack Kerouac - The Slouch Hat

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Elise Cowen

Beatnik is a term invented in 1958 by American journalist Herb Caen to parody the beat generation and his followers, just months after it was published Along the way, the novel-manifesto written by Jack Kerouac movement.

The following article is from the book Uncle John's Heavy Duty Bathroom Reader. The Beats were America's first hipsters. But what were they, like, really about, man? THE OTHER SIDE OF AMERICA One night in 1948, two students at new York's Columbia University, John Clellon Holmes and Jack Kerouac, were hanging out talking about what they thought was wrong with the modern world -the constant threat of nuclear war, the hollowness of suburbia, and the stifling academic mainstream. At one point…

Beatnik - The Beat Generation

BEAT GENERATION - Forced Exposure