- Literary Kicks
Background, biographies, and more on writers from the Beat Generation including Kerouac, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, and Snyder.
www.litkicks.com
- Wikipedia: Beat Generation
Overview of Jack Kerouac's social circle of struggling writers and artists that began in approximately 1948.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_generation
- American Museum of Beat Art, The
Online gallery of Beat-related art and photographs, as well as information on Beat writers and artists.
www.beatmuseum.org
- Beat Museum, The
The Beat Museum, located in the North Beach area of San Francisco, features collections from writers including Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Ferlinghetti.
www.thebeatmuseum.org
- Museum of American Poetics
Dedicated to the perpetuation of experimental poetry created by poets of the Beat Generation.
www.poetspath.com
- Beat Scene
Highlights the writers, poets, musicians, and artists of the Beat Generation.
www.beatscene.net
- Enterzone: How Beat Happened
Article by Steve Silberman.
ezone.org/ez/e2/articles/digaman.html
- UC Berkeley Libraries: The Beat Generation and Its Circle
Outlines the library's Beat-related holdings.
www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/BeatGen.html
- Ashcan Rantings and Kind King Light of Mind
By J. C. Shakespeare. An article on why the Beats still matter.
www.altx.com/io/beatgeneration.html
- Unspeakable Visions: The Beat Generation and the Bohemian Dialectic
1991 paper by Michael Hayward.
www.harbour.sfu.ca/~hayward/UnspeakableVisions/page1.html
- Cultural Chronology of Early Beat Generation Literature
Timeline putting Beat literature in context with other world, media, and literary events.
www.connectotel.com/beat/beatchr1.html
- Beat Page, The
Biographies, photographs, and works of the major writers of the Beat Generation, including Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and more.
www.rooknet.com/beatpage
- Psychedelic '60s: Literary Tradition and Social Change
From the Special Collections Department of the University of Virginia Library.
www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/sixties/index.html
- Jack Kerouac's Blue Neon Alley
Tribute to Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation. Includes biography and related links for the writers of Beat era.
www.kerouacalley.com
- Beat Quotes
Collection of quotes by authors from the Beat Generation.
angelfire.com/al/filosofy/beatquote.html
- Beatitude: Resources for a New Beat Culture
Links, excerpts, photographs, and more.
members.aol.com/gethep
- Dharma Beats (Cosmic Baseball Association)@
Get to know the Dharma Beats Cosmic Baseball Team which comprises of the best minds from the Beat Generation and is dedicated to the notion that the great game of the quadrature is really just a metaphor for the life of the mind. Includes team roster and photographs.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Teams/Dharma_Beats
- Howl: The Beat Generation Fanlisting
Fanlisting for the literary movement. Includes random quotes.
fans.opiatexposure.org/beatnik
- Salon: Breaking Up With the Beats
Gates explores his changing perception of his first literary loves: the Beats.
www.salon.com/books/feature/1999/04/12/beats
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