About the beat generation when everything seemed to happen and everyone who was anybody was in New York writing, reading, acting, painting, drinking, talking, playing.
Content Note
This is the beat generation / John Clellon Holmes. - Youth will serve itself / Lawrence Lipton. - Review of On the road / Gilbert Millstein. - In pursuit of kicks / David Dempsey. - Jack Kerouac / Jerry Tallmer. - Jazz and poetry / Kenneth Rexroth. - Kerouac at the Village Vanguard / Dan Wakefield. - Off the road, into the Vanguard, and out / Howard Smith. - King of the beats / Seymour Krim. - The beat debated / Marc D. Schleifer. - The roaming beatniks / Jack Kerouac. - The upbeat beatnik / Art Buchwald. - Portrait of a beat / Alfred G. Aronowitz. - Buddists find a beatnik "spy." - Horn on Howl / Lawrence Ferlinghetti. - The other night at Columbia / Diana Trilling. - Belief and technique for modern prose / Jack Kerouac. - How to tell the beatniks from the hipsters / Herbert Gold. - They dig booze, jazz and sex / Edward Klein. - The anatomy of a beatnik / Fred W. McDarrah. - Youth "disaffiliated" from a phony world / David McReynolds. - Where is the beat generation going? / Norman Podhoretz. - Beatniks for rent / Joseph Morgenstern. - Epitaph for dead beats / John Ciardi. - Begone dull beats / Ralph J. Gleason. - The last word / Jack Kerouac. - This is how the ride ends / Jack McClintock. - Beatnik magazine parody / Mad magazine.