Beat generation

The literary world has become more gender-inclusive since the beats of the 1950s. Just as well, because it’s jarring to find yourself in love with a world that doesn’t love you back

Writers of the Beat Generation. These authors rejected conformist society and sought to make their own way.

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AllenGinsberg.org

Sunday Reading: The Beat Generation || 5:00 A.M. Photograph by Bruce Davidson / Magnum The poet Allen Ginsberg was born ninety-two years ago today, on June 3rd, 1926. To celebrate, we’re bringing you pieces about the Beat Generation and the ways it changed American culture. Subscribers can read Jane Kramer’s two - part Profile of Ginsberg, which follows him across America, from Greenwich Village to San Francisco. In…

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Burroughs and Kerouac

International Women’s Day today. Beats and Women. It’s a thorny ol’ question. What place for women? Undeniably a male-driven movement, was it (must it forever be seen as) an alienating, even misogynist, movement?, an irredeemably sexist movement?… Yes, and no – What of the great occluded women? What of half of the culture marginalized and exploited? (rebellion, so […]