Many people today revere members of the Beat Generation for their reckless decision-making, constant exploration, and hunger to disrupt societal rules and conventional writing styles. Other people — ...

Rumors of a movie based on Jack Kerouac‘s On the Road have been around for so long that Montgomery Clift, who died in 1966, was once floated for a leading role. Francis Ford Coppola bought the rights ...

It began with a poem. “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked …” When Allen Ginsberg read his poem “Howl” at the now-closed Six Gallery in San Francisco ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about media culture, theory, and history with a focus on the offbeat and avant-garde. Poet and playwright Michael McClure, ...

The Beat Generation is a five-act comedy by bestselling author William Cane, whose work has been compared by the New York Times to the Marx Brothers. In this play, a wealthy New Yorker is having ...

Intending to revive the tentative soul of Beat Generation, Neo-Beat made its last meeting in İstanbul. Next direction of the group is to Zeytinli Fest. Neo-Beat Generation aims at reviving the ...

Sydney Hastings-Wilkins/DAILY. Buy this photo. Sydney Hastings-Wilkins/DAILY. Buy this photo. In an exploration of Ann Arbor’s robust and diverse literary scene, The Michigan Daily’s Business beat ...

Diane di Prima, a poet and writer who was regarded as the most significant female member of the Beat Generation, the male-dominated countercultural movement of the 1950s to which she lent her feminist ...