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Follow Friday: Beat Generation Edition
Saw James Franco in Howl at the Angelika: amazing. Now you can watch it for free on Hulu. Replace “Moloch” with “Murdoch” in Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and this is what you get John Allen Cassady reveals...
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Jack Kerouac’s Birthday Celebrations Happening Across the Country
Jack Kerouac’s birthday is coming up on the 12th, and there are a couple of celebratory events happening. Lowell Celebrates Kerouac has several days of fantastic events centered around what might be my...
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Happy Birthday, Amiri Baraka!
Happy birthday to the great poet, playwright, critic, and activist Amiri Baraka! Baraka was born on this day in 1934 in Newark, the same New Jersey city where eight years earlier Allen Ginsberg had...
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Should We Judge the Quality of a Memoir by Its Confessions?
Leslie Jamison Credit Illustration by R. Kikuo Johnson via The New York Times At the Hobart Festival of Women Writers, part of my class, “Writing Under the Influence of the Beat Generation,” was about...
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The Literary Career of Joyce Johnson
Joyce Johnson is an award-winning author who also has an important role in the Beat Generation. After Jack Kerouac’s death, she helped get Visions of Cody published. In a 2012 interview with Michael...
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