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.

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.