First Third & Other Writings - Revised & Expanded Edition Together With A New Prologue
10 best books like First Third & Other Writings - Revised & Expanded Edition Together With A New Prologue (Neal Cassady): The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs and Corso in Paris, 1957-1963, Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg, Gasoline & The Vestal Lady on Brattle, Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs, Go, Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir, Memoirs of a Beatnik, Planet News, Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution, Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac
| Author | Barry Miles |
| ISBN | 0802138179 |
The Beat Hotel is a delightful chronicle of a remarkable moment in American literary history. From the Howl obscenity trial to the invention of the cut-up technique, Barry Miles's extraordinary narrative chronicles the feast of ideas that was Paris, where the Beats took awestruck audiences with...
Neal Cassady was a living legend, his dauntless, wild spirit immortalized in the bible of the Beat generation, Jack Kerouac's "On the Road."In this vivid, comic, and wise account, Neal's wife captures the turbulene and raw excitement of her years with Cassady, with Kerouac(her sometime lover), and...
| Author | Gregory Corso |
| ISBN | 0872860884 |
A good collection from one of the more undervalued Beat poets. Corso has strong merits, but his work comes across as darker and more pessimistic than others, and does not speak to me in the way that Ferlinghetti does or (to a lesser extent) Ginsberg. Much as "Howl" was in many ways Ginsberg's defining poem,...
| Author | Ted Morgan |
| ISBN | 0380708825 |
Anarchist, heroin addict, alcoholic, nihilist, homosexual crusader, and brilliant writer, William S. Burroughs was the patron saint and Prince of Darkness of the Beats of the 1950s. His ground-breaking avant-garde masterpiece NAKED LUNCH shocked the literary world with its graphic descriptions...
| Author | John Clellon Holmes |
| ISBN | 0141188391 |
The novel that launched the beat generation's literary legacy describes the world of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Neil Cassady. Published two months before Kerouac began On the Road, Go is the first and most accurate chronicle of the private lives the Beats lived before they became public figures....
| 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 | Allen Ginsberg |
| ISBN | 0872860205 |
Planet News collecting seven years’ Poesy scribed to 1967 begins with electronic politics disassociation & messianic rhapsody TV Baby in New York, continues picaresque around the globe, elan perceptions notated at Mediterranean, Galilee & Ganges till next breakthrough, comedown...
| Author | Brenda Knight |
| ISBN | 1567312969 |
The Beat Generation created an American revolution in literature and culture that transformed the mid-twentieth century. The Beats helped make literature a democracy. All one needed, they believed, was passion and a love of the written word. The names of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady,...
| Author | Barry Gifford |
| ISBN | 1560257393 |
Here, in what has become a classic of its kind since its publication in 1978, is the fascinating story of Jack Kerouac, "King of the Beats" and American literary legend, recorded through the voices of his friends and lovers. Authors Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee retraced Kerouac's life at home and on...
| 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 | Steve Turner |
| ISBN | 0670870382 |
Forty years after the publication of On the Road Kerouac has won the critical recognition he long deserved, inspiring passionate interest from a new generation of readers. This lively, visual biography highlights Kerouac's impact on the 1950s and 1960s and tracks his relentless devotion to his work,...
| Author | Ann Charters |
| ISBN | 0312113471 |
Now that Kerouac's major novel, On the Road is accepted as an American classic, academic critics are slowly beginning to catch up with his experimental literary methods and examine the dozen books comprising what he called 'the legend of Duluoz.' Nearly all of his books have been in print internationally...
| Author | Jack Kerouac |
| ISBN | 0140234446 |
Thirty years after his death, popular and academic interest in the life and work of Jack Kerouac have reached an all-time high. The first volume of his selected letters, edited by renowned biographer and Beat scholar Ann Charters, was widely regarded as a vital and momentous contribution to Kerouac...
| Author | Dennis McNally |
| ISBN | 0306812223 |
"A blockbuster of a biography . . . absolutely magnificent."--San Francisco Chronicle
Jack Kerouac--"King of the Beats," unwitting catalyst for the '60s counterculture, groundbreaking author--was a complex and compelling man: a star athlete with a literary bent; a spontaneous writer...
| Author | Bill Morgan |
| ISBN | 1416592423 |
2014 ACKER AWARD WINNER
Anyone who cares to understand the literary and cultural ferment of America in the later twentieth century must be familiar with the writings and lives of those scruffy bohemians known as the Beat Generation.
In this highly entertaining work, Bill Morgan,...
