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919 Listings - DR (10/10)919 Listings - DR (10/10) The Beat Vortex - http://homepage.mac.com/thorntonstreiff/beatvortex.html
Poet Lee Streiff's site on the many Beat Generation artists that lived in Wichita, KS. Covers 1947-1966; includes Dave Haselwood, Charles Plymell; with original photos of Bruce Conner and Michael McClure in high school, other rare views of early 1950s.
475 Listings - DR (10/10)475 Listings - DR (10/10) Beat Movement - http://people.bu.edu/rcarney/beatmov/more.shtml
An overview of Beat poetry, literature, history, and film.
780 Listings - DR (10/10)780 Listings - DR (10/10) Salon Books | Breaking up with the Beats - http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1999/04/12/beats/index.html
Kerouac and company were David Gates' first literary loves -- but he had to get off their road.
10 Listings - DR (9/10)10 Listings - DR (9/10) The Beat Papers of Al Aronowitz - http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/1beat.html
A collection of interviews, memories and articles by the late Aronowitz, the infamous Black Listed Journalist, who was actually there; close friend of Ginsberg and introduced Bob Dylan to the Beatles.
10 Listings - DR (9/10)10 Listings - DR (9/10) San Francisco Renaissance - http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/column26.html
6 Poets at 6 Gallery by Al Aronowitz.
11 Listings - DR (8/10)11 Listings - DR (8/10) Death Of The Beat Generation - http://gaytoday.badpuppy.com/garchive/viewpoint/102797vi.htm
Gay Today magazine article by Jesse Monteagudo, written following the deaths of gay Beat writers William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Herbert Huncke, on their impact on modern culture.
21 Listings - DR (8/10)21 Listings - DR (8/10) Ashcan Rantings and Kind King Light of Mind - http://www.altx.com/io/beatgeneration.html
Why the Beats Still Matter by actor J.C. Shakespeare
16 Listings - DR (8/10)16 Listings - DR (8/10) Beat Generation at the Gay, Lesbian, B, T, Queer Encyclopedia - http://www.glbtq.com/literature/beat_gen.html
The writers of the Beat Generation, many of whom were gay or bisexual, endorsed gay rights as a part of their rebellion against inhibition and self-censorship.
29,618 Listings - DR (8/10)29,618 Listings - DR (8/10) Beat Quotes - http://www.angelfire.com/al/filosofy/beatquote.html
Quotes by or pertaining to a beat author.
447 Listings - DR (8/10)447 Listings - DR (8/10) Semiology: Beats Vs. Beatniks In 1950s American Culture - http://rant.bizland.com/beatnik.html
by Grant L. Allen. Transition from beat idea to beatnik myth distorted the original almost beyond recognition.
587 Listings - DR (7/10)587 Listings - DR (7/10) Amram, David. "A vanishing America?: - http://www.popmatters.com/chapter/Issue3/amram.html
Kerouac memories, a Guthrie symphony and a trip to Nathan’s Coney Island hot dog emporium
1,268 Listings - DR (6/10)1,268 Listings - DR (6/10) the beats: new york - http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/exhibits/sixties/beatsny.html
University of Virginia. Sharp cover images of first-edition books by William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Neal Cassady.
30 Listings - DR (6/10)30 Listings - DR (6/10) Literary Kicks - http://www.litkicks.com
A free-form study of Beat Literature, literary community and underground culture -- growing since 1994!
21 Listings - DR (6/10)21 Listings - DR (6/10) Naropa University - Audio Archive Project - http://www.archive.org/details/naropa
Massive oral collection from Buddhist university; includes Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, William S. Burroughs, Philip Whalen, Michael McClure, Gary Snyder, Diane DiPrima, Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
On Target - DR (6/10)On Target - DR (6/10) Panopticon - http://www.ironorchid.com/lawless/
Poems by Paul Farrar Lawless (1915-83), the forgotten beat poet. A dedicated pacifist, these poems reflect a spiritual journey to Mt. Shasta on the eve of America's involvement in WWII.
14 Listings - DR (6/10)14 Listings - DR (6/10) Books by the Beat Generation - http://www.lewrockwell.com/miller/miller11.html
Nice review of major books (collectables) by the Beats, by Dr. Donald W. Miller, Jr.
129 Listings - DR (6/10)129 Listings - DR (6/10) The Beat Generation and the Sixties - http://www.library.adelaide.edu.au/guide/hum/english/beats.html
A guide to web resources, combining Beats and leading into the Hippies and 1960s. Created and maintained by Alan Keig, University of Adelaide Library, Australia. Adds a non-USA view of the Beats.
22 Listings - DR (6/10)22 Listings - DR (6/10) Gordon Ball's Beat Generation - http://academics.vmi.edu/english/Beats.html
Ball teaches at the Virginia Military Institute -- a photo of Allen Ginsberg teaching Ball's class is now a classic.
50 Listings - DR (6/10)50 Listings - DR (6/10) Cold War Correspondents: Ginsberg, Kerouac, Cassady, and the Political Economy of Beat Letters, - http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/staff/Harris/coldwarcor.pdf
by Dr. Oliver Harris, Dept. of American Studies, Keele University, England, leading Burroughs scholar.
On Target - DR (6/10)On Target - DR (6/10) PoLarity eMagazine - http://www.poembeat.com/index.html
New American Bohemian Literature, George Wallace, editor. Fiction, photographs, Beat events
52 Listings - DR (6/10)52 Listings - DR (6/10) Allen Ginsberg and his world: photos by Gordon Ball - http://www.jacketmagazine.com/33/gb/index.html
Ball edited three books with poet Allen Ginsberg, including Pulitzer Prize nominee "Allen Verbatim."
On Target - DR (6/10)On Target - DR (6/10) Beat Generation Trading Cards - http://deniskitchen.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=TC_JC.Beat&Category_Code=
Unique renderings of Beats by Jesse Crumb (son of R. Crumb) on promotional cards. Includes Lenny Bruce, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Thelonious Monk.
On Target - DR (6/10)On Target - DR (6/10) What Are Souls? An Interview with Michael McClure - http://www.alsopreview.com/columns/foley/jfmminterview3.html
by Jack Foley, includes discussion of Six Gallery reading, 1955, of "For the Death of 100 Whales" poem.
On Target - DR (5/10)On Target - DR (5/10) Aram Saroyan, writer, poet, playwright - http://www.aramsaroyan.com
An international writer with ties to the Beats; author of "The Saga of Lew Welch and the Beat Generation"
On Target - DR (5/10)On Target - DR (5/10) Philomene Long -- Interview for Ruta 66 - http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/thirdpage/phlmbio.html
By Jordi Pujol Nadal. Greenwich Village native and the Beat Queen of Venice, CA, poet Long and her late husband, poet John Thomas, helped create the Los Angeles poetry scene.
On Target - DR (5/10)On Target - DR (5/10) Larry Keenan - Beat Generation & Counter-Culture Photography Galleries - http://emptymirrorbooks.com/keenan/
Featuring Keenan's famed fine art photographs of the Beat Generation and Hippies and counterculture, from 1964 to now. Includes a biography and exhibitions, publications. No photographer was closer to the Beats.
On Target - DR (5/10)On Target - DR (5/10) Stuart Perkoff / Philomene Long - Death Bed Conversation - http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/thirdpage/withperkoff.html
A central figure in the Venice Beat scene, poet Perkoff died at age 44 on June 24, 1974. Beat Poet Long was his lover.
On Target - DR (5/10)On Target - DR (5/10) Beat Generation and Bohemian Culture: digihitch.com - http://beat.digihitch.com/
Subcultural stories and resources with book reviews, recommended links, original articles and event listings. Featuring Jack Kerouac and influential beat characters.
102 Listings - DR (5/10)102 Listings - DR (5/10) Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl”: Fifty years later and in its own time - http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/apr2007/gins-a05.shtml
By Andras Gyorgy; World Socialist take on the conditions that the Beats wrote in versus current realites.
On Target - DR (5/10)On Target - DR (5/10) Six Poets at Six Gallery - http://www.mundomundo.com/6-poets.html
October 7, 1955 reading with Michael McClure, Philip Lamantia, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Phil Whalen, Kenneth Rexroth, San Francisco. First reading of "Howl" by Ginsberg. Start of modern oral poetry tradition.
70 Listings - DR (5/10)70 Listings - DR (5/10) A brief introduction to the beat (in) film - http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/00/9/beat.html
An Analysis of Beat Cinema
On Target - DR (5/10)On Target - DR (5/10) Beatscene - http://www.beatscene.net/
Magazine which documents and highlights the writers, poets, musicians and artists of America's Beat Generation.
On Target - DR (5/10)On Target - DR (5/10) Dharma Beat Links - http://www.wordsareimportant.com/dharmabeat.htm
A directory on writer Jack Kerouac, and his friends, including Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and Neal Cassady.
645 Listings - DR (5/10)645 Listings - DR (5/10) Unspeakable Visions: The Beat Generation and The Bohemian Dialectic. - http://www.harbour.sfu.ca/~hayward/UnspeakableVisions/page1.html
by Michael Haywood. 1991 paper on the history of the Beat writers in print, from their early stirrings in the underground press, through to their publication by mainstream publishers.
On Target - DR (5/10)On Target - DR (5/10) Goodie Magazine - http://www.goodie.org/
Lost Beat poets
265 Listings - DR (4/10)265 Listings - DR (4/10) A Short Guide to Denton Welsh - http://alex.edfac.usyd.edu.au/BLP/websites/LOUTTIT%20WEBSITE/Index.htm
Author, painter. 1915-1948. Major literary influence on William Burroughs.
286 Listings - DR (4/10)286 Listings - DR (4/10) How Beat Happened - http://gcorso.cliro.unibo.it/CorsoG/articoli/how_beat_happened.htm
by Steve Silberman. Article from SF Weekly.
6 Listings - DR (4/10)6 Listings - DR (4/10) Paul Bowles Photographs - http://www.paulbowles.org/photoslit3.html
Literary friends of writer Bowles, visiting him in Tangier in 1950s and 1960s. Includes Ginsberg, Burroughs, Corso.
On Target - DR (4/10)On Target - DR (4/10) American Museum of Beat Art - http://www.beatmuseum.org/
Museum located in Pasadena, California. Featuring writers, poets, film, artists, photographs, manifestos, and critical writing.
6 Listings - DR (4/10)6 Listings - DR (4/10) Denver's Beat Poetry Driving Tour - http://www.denvergov.org/AboutDenver/today_driving_beat_introduction.asp
Official Denver, CO, site with driving tour, including directions to many different sites and buildings related to Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac. Includes bars, buildings, and locations, with photographs.
46 Listings - DR (4/10)46 Listings - DR (4/10) Ann Charters Interview - http://wiredforbooks.org/anncharters/index.htm
1992 audio interview by Don Swaim with author of Beat Down to Your Soul: What Was the Beat Generation, and The Portable Beat Reader.
On Target - DR (4/10)On Target - DR (4/10) The Wild Bohemian Home Page - http://wild-bohemian.com/
Colin Pringle's articles and directory on wild cats and chicks, Hippies, the Beat Generation, Bohemian bands, outlaw bikers.
565 Listings - DR (4/10)565 Listings - DR (4/10) Bibliography of The Beat Generation - http://honors.umd.edu/HONR269J/bibBeats.html
A list of books, articles and essays about the Beats from University of Maryland class: The Beat Begins - America in the 1950s.
136 Listings - DR (3/10)136 Listings - DR (3/10) The Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives - http://www.sfsu.edu/~poetry/
San Francsico State University; artist biographies and MP3 audio files; founded in 1954 on the basis of a gift by W.H. Auden.
961 Listings - DR (3/10)961 Listings - DR (3/10) Beat-L - http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/beat-list.html
An online discussion forum devoted to the study of the lives and works of the writers of the Beat Generation, especially Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs.
98,188 Listings - DR (3/10)98,188 Listings - DR (3/10) Beat SuperNova - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Rhodes/4840/thebeats/thebeats.htm
A large list of beats and people related to the beat movement.
On Target - DR (3/10)On Target - DR (3/10) Michael McClure & Ray Manzarek Official Website - http://www.mcclure-manzarek.com/
Beat poet McClure and former Door's band member Manzarek's website focuses on their collaboration of music and poetry projects and publications, performances, books, CDs, and videos.
140 Listings - DR (3/10)140 Listings - DR (3/10) Characters In Beat and Bohemian Literature - http://home.swbell.net/worchel/charkey.htm
Listing by person's last name to their fictional character name(s) in Beat literature. From Worchel Institute for the Study of Beat and Bohemian Literature.
On Target - DR (2/10)On Target - DR (2/10) Hibblen Radio - Beat Generation - http://www.hibblenradio.com/beat.html
A portfolio website for CBS News Radio reporter Michael Hibblen featuring sound clips of the Beat Generation
On Target - DR (2/10)On Target - DR (2/10) Mom's Scrapbook - http://www.jimcheval.com/Mom
In memory of Patricia Harrison, with notes on Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs; also Louise Nevelson and others.
7,463 Listings - DR (2/10)7,463 Listings - DR (2/10) Wikipedia: Beat Generation - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Generation
Detailed article lists principal writers in New York, San Francisco and elsewhere, and explains links to music, visual arts, and drug and alcohol use. With section on anti-Beats such as Norman Podhoretz.
On Target - DR (1/10)On Target - DR (1/10) Huncke Times - http://www.huncke-times.com/
Herbert Huncke, the original Beat; major influence on William Burroughs.
8 Listings - DR (1/10)8 Listings - DR (1/10) Cultural Chronology of Early Beat Generation Literature - http://www.connectotel.com/beat/beatchr1.html
Annotated list of beat publication dates and events, by Larry Smith (Firelands College of BGSU)
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Malcolm McNeill Interview on William Burroughs, Ah Puch Is Here - http://www.vlib.us/beats/malcolmmcneill.html
Emmy award winning artist McNeill worked with Burroughs in London during early 1970s, on comic series, The Unspeakable Mr. Hart, and graphic novel, Ah Puch Is Here (aka, Ah Pook is Here), from Beats In Kansas, 2007
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Robert Cass, New Orleans Beat Legend - http://www.alaronowitz.com/column75k.html
Dennis Formento interviews Robert Cass, New Orleans' oldest living beatnik, 1999. Cass published "Climax: A Creative Review in the Jazz Spirit" in 1955 and 1956 from the bar, A Quarterite Place, 733 Bourbon St. It was among the earliest of the Beat literature.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Shapes of Time: The Beats - http://www.shapesoftime.net/pages/viewpage.asp?uniqid=11769
by Marshall Mateer, Belfast; memories of buying Seymour Krim's "The Beats" in Northern Ireland in 1962, by the then 17-year old Mateer.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Celestial Homework - http://www.stevesilberman.com/celestial/
Reading list with links for "Literary History of the Beat Generation," a course taught by Allen Ginsberg at Naropa Institute in 1977
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Ashleigh Brilliant - http://www.ashleighbrilliant.com/writings.html
artist and writer, creator of pot-shots cartoons, famous for their 17-word limit.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Corso - The Last Beat - http://www.corsothefilm.com
Documentary film following Beat co-founder Gregory Corso, "on the road" in Europe retracing the early days of "The Beats".
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) This is the Beat Generation - http://www.rooknet.net/beatpage/writers/holmes.html
by John Clellon Holmes, A 26-year-old defines his times, New York Times Magazine, Nov. 16, 1952. Very early essay on Beats; Holmes also wrote novel "Go" in 1952, the first book to cover Kerouac, Ginsberg, et al.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Beat Footprints in NYC - http://www.beatfootprints.com/Site/Home.html
A photographic essay of Beat Generation landmarks in New York City.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Blue Neon Alley: The Beat Generation - http://www.kerouacalley.com/beatgeneration.html
A directory articles and resources for authors of the beat generation.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) The Beat Page - http://www.rooknet.net/beatpage/
Biographies, photos and included works of Beat Generation writers.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Herbert Huncke Interviewed - http://realitystudio.org/interviews/herbert_huncke_by_johnny_strike
Exclusive interview of Beat Generation icon by author Johnny Strike
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Beats In Kansas: the Beat Generation in the Heartland - http://www.vlib.us/beats/
Collection of links and original articles. Many Beats were from Kansas. Original photos of William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Ruined Time: The 1950s and the Beat - http://www.ruinedtime.com
Memoir of the Great Depression, World War II, and the 1950s with an uniquely Beat outlook.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) A Blackout Tavern - http://www.vlib.us/beats/ablackout.html
Study in 1960s Folklore, by Pat O'Connor. The 1960s hippie scene in Wichita, KS. Includes photographs, and covers the first large LSD bust in Kansas.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) James Mechem, Beat Writer and Publisher, New York - http://www.vlib.us/beats/mechemlow.html
Caprice magazine founder; interviewed on his 80th birthday in 2003 by poet Denise Low.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Ashleigh Brilliant & The Fine Art of Pot-Shots - http://www.iowasource.com/arts/ashleighbrilliant_0705.html
Wits of Bizdom: Interview by James Moore, The Iowa Source Magazine
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) The birth of the beatnik - http://www.richmondreview.co.uk/features/campbe01.html
By James Campbell, author of This is the Beat Generation, 1999. Excellent background to the naming of the beats by Herb Caen - post Sputnik.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Remembering William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg - http://www.vlib.us/beats/mccrary.html
Personal observations by poet Jim McCrary, a longtime friend of Burroughs, and his office manager for ten years.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Haight Ashbury Song Book - http://www.vlib.us/beats/haightashburysongbook.html
by Ashleigh Brilliant, 1967, San Francisco's "Songs of love and haight." Beat Generation to hippie transition.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Brautigan, Richard (1935-1984) - http://www.brautigan.net/
Bibliography and information about the writer told in text, images, and other resources. Maintained by John F. Barber.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Henry Miller and William Burroughs: An Overview - http://realitystudio.org/scholarship/henry-miller-and-william-burroughs-an-overview/
Reality Studio's: the influence of Henry Miller on Burroughs at Harvard in September 1935, his senior year, when the Harvard Advocate printed Miller, his first publication in America.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Ah Puch Is Here - http://www.burroughsmcneillart.com/
Malcolm McNeill and William Burroughs - art work for unpublished image novel (aka, Ah Pook Is Here) created in early 1970s in London.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Harold Norse, Poet - http://www.thebeatmuseum.org/norse_bio.html
Norse (1916- ) was among the American expatriates in Europe during the 1950's and early 1960's. He was an occupant of the Beat Hotel, Paris, where he first caught up with the Beat generation writers in 1960. Poet William Carlos Williams was his mentor.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Moody's Skidrow Beanery - http://www.vlib.us/beats/oconnor.html
In Wichita, Kansas, Moody Connell believed in a mix of hoboes and Beats and served them simple fare in a place to congregate, by Pat O'Connor.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) William Burroughs & Allen Ginsberg: PJs photograph - http://www.vlib.us/beats/burroughsginsberg.html
Morning in Burroughs' house, with Beat founders in old fashion cotton pajamas. 1984, by Pat Elliott, Lawrence, KS
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Oliver Harris on Burroughs - http://realitystudio.org/scholarship/cutting-up-the-archive-william-burroughs-and-the-composite-text/
Dr. Harris, a leading Beat scholar on "William Burroughs and the Composite Text," presented at the 4th Annual Symposium on Textual Studies, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK; 25 May 2007.

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