Beat generation

A new book of photographs by Burt Glinn – featuring a recently discovered essay by Jack Kerouac – captures the beat generation in all their jazz-heavy, late-night glory

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.

Burt Glinn shot the Beats in New York’s jazz clubs, coffee shops and Village bars.

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The two met in 1963 and they instantly hit it off. They collaborated together and Ginsberg would go on tour with Dylan on his 'Rolling Thunder Revue'.

See the 45 best photos of New York's Greenwich Village in the '60s.

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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…

Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg at Jack Kerouac’s grave in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1975. This week the Rock File uncovers Allen Ginsberg’s liner notes to Bob Dylan’s 1976 album Desire. SONG…