The museum, tucked between two night clubs and kitty corner from City Lights, is filled with enough quirky Beat memorabilia to make it worth an afternoon outing for locals who want a glimpse of what ...

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 ...

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 ...

The late Alan Watts, a philosopher, scholar, speaker, writer, and seminal figure in the counterculture of the Beat Generation, is getting a new publishing deal more than 50 years after his death.

The Beat Generation was a movement of ragtag poets and novelists whose work came to define the sentiments of many Americans throughout the 1950s, in turn directly inspiring the hippie and punk ...

Poet Allen Ginsberg howled across the literary landscape in the mid-1950s, heralding the start of the Beat Generation. This was the birth of the counter culture. Ginsberg was joined by his pals Jack ...

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 ...

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 ...

Using original film clips and interviews, this film illustrates the 1950s social movement termed the Beat Generation. Disillusioned with post-World War II America, Beat Generation writers and painters ...