The Beat Generation
August 26, 2015 6:24 PM Subscribe
The Word is Beat: Poetry, Jazz, Literature and the Beat Generation "It is the aspiration of much literature that it wants to change the way we look at the world, but few authors and poets have been as influential as the group of writers labeled the Beat Generation. They saw a lot that they did not like about American society in the fifties when they came of age, and they did their best to change it through their literature and a new practice of living."
Er, yes. But maybe a shorter? And maybe a little less, er, smug?
posted by JHarris at 3:23 AM on August 27, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by JHarris at 3:23 AM on August 27, 2015 [2 favorites]
I could never work out why Jack Kerouac didn't self publish "On the Road" and sell it from the back of that Hudson Hornet him and Jack Cassidy used to drive round in.
posted by Narrative_Historian at 3:44 AM on August 28, 2015
posted by Narrative_Historian at 3:44 AM on August 28, 2015
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