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10 best books like Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader (William S. Burroughs): Last Exit to Brooklyn, The Basketball Diaries, The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell, The World's Religions, Memoirs of a Beatnik, The Portable Beat Reader, Subterranean Kerouac: The Hidden Life of Jack Kerouac, Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac, Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958, Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac

Last Exit to Brooklyn
AuthorHubert Selby Jr.
ISBN0747549923
Few novels have caused as much debate as Hubert Selby Jr.'s notorious masterpiece, Last Exit to Brooklyn, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

Described by various reviewers as hellish and obscene, Last Exit to Brooklyn...
The Basketball Diaries
AuthorJim Carroll
The urban classic coming-of-age story about sex, drugs, and basketball.

Jim Carroll grew up to become a renowned poet and punk rocker. But in this memoir of the mid-1960's, set during his coming-of-age from 12 to 15, he was a rebellious teenager making a place and a name for himself on the unforgiving...
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
AuthorAldous Huxley
ISBN0060595183
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. These two astounding essays are among the most profound studies of the effects of mind-expanding drugs written in this century. Contains the complete texts of The Doors of Perception ...
The World's Religions
AuthorHuston Smith
ISBN0062508113
Originally titled The Religions of Man, this completely revised and updated edition of Smith′s masterpiece, now with an engaging new foreword, explores the essential elements and teachings of the world′s predominant faiths, including:
Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam,...
Memoirs of a Beatnik
AuthorDiane di Prima
ISBN0140235396
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...
The Portable Beat Reader
AuthorAnn Charters
ISBN0140151028
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,...
Subterranean Kerouac: The Hidden Life of Jack Kerouac
AuthorEllis Amburn
ISBN0312145314
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...
Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac
AuthorBarry Gifford
ISBN1560257393
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...
Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958
AuthorJack Kerouac
ISBN0141001879
On a blind date in Greenwich Village set up by Allen Ginsberg, Joyce Johnson (then Joyce Glassman) met Jack Kerouac in January 1957, nine months before he became famous overnight with the publication of On the Road. She was an adventurous, independent-minded twenty-one-year-old; Kerouac was already...
Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac
AuthorGerald Nicosia
ISBN0520085698
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...
Jack Kerouac: Angelheaded Hipster
AuthorSteve Turner
ISBN0670870382
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,...
Kerouac: A Biography
AuthorAnn Charters
ISBN0312113471
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...
Selected Letters, 1940-1956
AuthorJack Kerouac
ISBN0140234446
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...
Some of the Dharma
AuthorJack Kerouac
ISBN0670848778
Written during a critical period of his life, Some of the Dharma is a key volume in Jack Kerouac's vast autobiographical canon. He began writing it in 1953 as reading notes on Buddhism intended for his friend, poet Allen Ginsberg. As Kerouac's Buddhist study and meditation practice intensified, what...
Poets on the Peaks
AuthorJohn Suiter
ISBN1582431485
Based on scores of previously unpublished letters and journals, plus recent interviews with Snyder and Whalen and several others, Poets on the Peaks creates a group portrait of Kerouac, Snyder, and Whalen that transcends the tired urban cliches of the "Beat" life. Poets on the Peaks is about the development...
Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats
AuthorBarry Miles
ISBN0805060448
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...
Collected Letters, 1944-1967
AuthorNeal Cassady
ISBN0142002178
“Dave Moore's work on this collection is simply awesome....  It should become and remain the definitive reference book for Beat scholars forever.” — Carolyn Cassady

Neal Cassady is best remembered today as Jack Kerouac’s muse and the basis for the character “Dean Moriarty”...
Høytiden
AuthorRui Tenreiro
Kaunis värienkäyttö ja miellyttävän selkeä piirrostyyli vie mukaansa jo ennen kuin ensimmäistäkään repliikkiä on lausuttu. Tarina on mysteerinen ja johdattaa lukijan tulkitsemaan ja pohdiskelemaan sen alkua ja loppua, antamatta selkeitä vastauksia mihinkään. Silti, omituisella...
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