Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958
10 best books like Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958 (Jack Kerouac): The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future, Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir, Memoirs of a Beatnik, The Portable Beat Reader, Subterranean Kerouac: The Hidden Life of Jack Kerouac, Four Reincarnations: Poems, Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac, David Foster Wallace: The Last Interview and Other Conversations, Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats, Girl with Curious Hair
| Author | Andrew Yang |
| ISBN | 0316414247 |
From 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, a captivating account of how "a skinny Asian kid from upstate" became a successful entrepreneur, only to find a new mission: calling attention to the urgent steps America must take, including Universal Basic Income, to stabilize our economy...
| Author | Joyce Johnson |
| ISBN | 0140283579 |
Jack Kerouac. Allen Ginsberg. William S. Burroughs. LeRoi Jones. Theirs are the names primarily associated with the Beat Generation. But what about Joyce Johnson (nee Glassman), Edie Parker, Elise Cowen, Diane Di Prima, and dozens of others? These female friends and lovers of the famous iconoclasts...
| Author | Diane di Prima |
| ISBN | 0140235396 |
Long regarded as an underground classic for its gritty and unabashedly erotic portrayal of the Beat years, Memoirs of a Beatnik is a moving account of a powerful woman artist coming of age sensually and intellectually in a movement dominated by a small confederacy of men, many of whom she lived with and...
| Author | Ann Charters |
| ISBN | 0140151028 |
Beginning in the late 1940s, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstacy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the American road in prose as fast and reckless as a V-8 Chevy. It was the junk-sick surrealism of William Burroughs,...
| Author | Ellis Amburn |
| ISBN | 0312145314 |
Drawing upon original interviews, his own relationship with Kerouac, Kerouac's recently published letters, and still-unpublished journals from the Kerouac archives, Ellis Amburn reveals an inner Kerouac that has not appeared in any previous biography. This is the "subterranean" Kerouac whom...
| Author | Max Ritvo |
| ISBN | 1571314903 |
Published shortly after his death in August 2016 at age 25, Max Ritvo's collection of poetry is reverent and profane, entertaining and bruising. When Max Ritvo was diagnosed with cancer at age sixteen, he became the chief war correspondent for his body.
The poems of Four Reincarnations are...
| Author | Gerald Nicosia |
| ISBN | 0520085698 |
In 1969 Jack Kerouac died a premature death. While his legendary lifestyle and unique creative talent made him a hero in his lifetime, his literary influence has grown steadily since. With Memory Babe (a childhood nickname honoring Kerouac's feats of memory), Gerald Nicosia gives us a complete biography...
| Author | David Foster Wallace |
| ISBN | 1612192068 |
In intimate and eloquent interviews, including the last he gave before his suicide, the writer hailed by A.O. Scott of the New York Times as “the best mind of his generation” considers the state of modern America, entertainment and discipline, adulthood, literature, and his own inimitable writing...
| Author | Barry Miles |
| ISBN | 0805060448 |
More than forty years after the publication of On the Road, Jack Kerouac is more widely read and revered by a new generation than ever before. Why this is so is the subject of Barry Miles's fresh and revealing portrait of the writer who is the acknowledged leader of the Beats, the group of writers that included...
| Author | David Foster Wallace |
Remarkable, hilarious and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by "a dynamic writer of extraordinary talent " (Jenifer Levin, New York Times Book Review).
Girl with Curious Hair is replete with David Foster Wallace's remarkable and unsettling reimaginations of reality. From the eerily...
Tell the Machine Goodnight
| Author | Katie Williams |
| ISBN | 0525533125 |
Pearl's job is to make people happy. Every day, she provides customers with personalized recommendations for greater contentment. She's good at her job, her office manager tells her, successful. But how does one measure an emotion?
Meanwhile, there's Pearl's teenage son, Rhett. A sensitive...
