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10 best books like Go (John Clellon Holmes): The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs and Corso in Paris, 1957-1963, Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg, First Third & Other Writings - Revised & Expanded Edition Together With A New Prologue, Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir, Memoirs of a Beatnik, The Happy Birthday of Death, 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, Kerouac: A Biography, The Typewriter Is Holy: The Complete, Uncensored History of the Beat Generation
| 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 | Neal Cassady |
| ISBN | 0872860051 |
Immortalized as Dean Moriarty by Jack Kerouac in his epic novel, On the Road, Neal Cassady was infamous for his unstoppable energy and his overwhelming charm, his savvy hustle and his devil-may-care attitude. A treasured friend and traveling companion of Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs,...
| 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 | Gregory Corso |
| ISBN | 0811200272 |
It is true that he has been one of the inner circle of the 'Beats' from the first, but many admirers of his poetry feel that it belongs quite as much to other and older traditions in world literature. One of these is the revival of pure poetry whenever an “original”––be it Rimbaud or Whitman––has...
| 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 | 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 | 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,...
| Author | Jack Kerouac |
| ISBN | 0802130496 |
Forget, for the moment, about On the Road: anyone about to read Kerouac should start here. Dr. Sax is the crystallization of Kerouac’s creative integrity and vision. Here, his style is unencumbered by the editorial “corrections” that helped make On the Road a best-seller, but compromised its...
