The Beat Book
10 best books like The Beat Book (Anne Waldman): The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs and Corso in Paris, 1957-1963, Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg, Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years, The Portable Jack Kerouac, The Best American Short Stories 1997, Farming, a Hand Book, The Best American Short Stories 1995, The Best American Short Stories 1996, I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg, These are My Rivers: New Selected Poems 1955-1993
| 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 | Diane di Prima |
| ISBN | 0140231587 |
In Recollections of My Life as a Woman, Diane di Prima explores the first three decades of her extraordinary life. Born into a conservative Italian American family, di Prima grew up in Brooklyn but broke away from her roots to follow through on a lifelong commitment to become a poet, first made when she...
| Author | Jack Kerouac |
| ISBN | 0140178198 |
This one-volume omnibus, planned by the author before his death and now completed by his biographer, Ann Charters, makes clear the ambition and accomplishment of Jack Kerouac's "Legend of Duluoz" - the story of his life told in the course of his many "true-story novels, " including "On the Road." As...
| Author | Annie Proulx |
| ISBN | 0395798655 |
The preeminent short fiction series since 1915, The Best American Short Stories is the only annual that offers the finest works chosen by a distinguished best-selling guest editor. This year, E. Annie Proulx's selection includes dazzling stories by Tobias Wolff, Donald Hall, Cynthia Ozick, Robert...
| Author | Wendell Berry |
| ISBN | 0156301717 |
The America many people would like to believe in is convincingly explored in this volume of poems by a writer close to the heart of things. The sanity and eloquence of these poems spring from the land in Kentucky where Wendell Berry was born, married, lives, farms, and writes. From classic pastoral themes...
| Author | Jane Smiley |
| ISBN | 0395711797 |
Every autumn, readers of short stories eagerly look forward to the chance to discover their favorite writers and new talents in The Best American Short Stories. Last year's collection marched on to bestseller lists across the country and met with acclaim from critics who declared it "a brilliant work...
| Author | John Edgar Wideman |
| ISBN | 0395752914 |
Each fall The Best American Short Stories provides a fresh showcase for this rich and unpredictable form. Selected from an unusually wide variety of publications, John Edgar Wideman's choices for 1996 place stories from esteemed national magazines alongside those from some of the smallest and most...
| Author | Bill Morgan |
| ISBN | 0670037966 |
Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Howl, the first full biography of Allen Ginsberg—from birth to death
Allen Ginsberg was America’s most influential poet since World War II, a figure who was in the vanguard of every popular movement of that time, from the emergence...
| Author | Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
| ISBN | 0811212734 |
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "one of our ageless radicals and true bards" (Booklist), has gathered here four decades of poetry in his inimitable everyman’s voice, including more than fifty pages of new work. The tone has deepened over the years, and he may now be seen as a true maestro in his field. Behind...
What can I say? This is a must-have book for anyone who wants ALL their lit theory bases covered. This collection culls short stories and excerpts from novels and culminates with a section on postmodernist theory itself. My favorites so far are the stories from Walter Abish, David Foster Wallace, Ishmael...
| 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 | Allen Ginsberg |
| ISBN | 0060933763 |
Assembled by Allen Ginsberg, Selected Poems 1947-1995 is the definitive collection of the best works of one of the most influential and revolutionary poets of the twentieth century.Allen Ginsberg, famous for helping catalyze the Beat Generation, wrote poetry for more than fifty years. His innovative...
The Voice is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac
| Author | Joyce Johnson |
| ISBN | 0670025100 |
A groundbreaking portrait of Kerouac as a young artist—from the award-winning author of Minor Characters
In The Voice is All, Joyce Johnson, author of the classic memoir Minor Characters, about her relationship with Jack Kerouac, brilliantly peels away layers of the Kerouac legend to...
| Author | William S. Burroughs |
| ISBN | 0802137784 |
Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs is the most intimate book ever written by William S. Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch and one of the most celebrated literary outlaws of our time. Laid out as diary entries of the last nine months of Burroughs's life, Last Words spans the realms of...
| 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 | Jessica Hagedorn |
| ISBN | 0140231110 |
The writers included in this ground-breaking anthology are exhilarating in their differences: cultural backgrounds, age range, literary styles. From Jose Garcia Villa's minimalist "Untitled Story, " first published in 1933, to Meena Alexander's "Manhattan Music, " with its razor-sharp look...
