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	Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
	Howl	Allen Ginsberg	This annotated version of Ginsberg's classic is the poet's own re-creation of the revolutionary work's composition process, along with anecdotes and an intimate look at the poet's writing techniques.	OL102487W
	You’ll Be Okay	Edie Parker Kerouac	Edie Parker was eighteen years old when she met Jack Kerouac at Columbia University in 1940. A young socialite from Grosse Pointe, Michigan, she had come to New York to study art, and quickly found h…	OL12098203W
	Beerspit Night and Cursing	Charles Bukowski	Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised …	OL14955340W
	Charles Bukowski	Charles Bukowski	From the Publisher: Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), one of the most outrageous and controversial figures of twentieth-century American literature, was so prolific that many important pieces were never …	OL14955461W
	The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice	Allen Ginsberg	These are earliest journals and never-before-published poems of legendary Beat Generation avatar and poet extraordinaire Allen Ginsberg. Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) kept journals throughout his entire…	OL14997473W
	The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder, 1956-1991	Gary Snyder	One of the central relationships in the Beat scene was the long-lasting friendship of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder. Bill Morgan, Ginsberg’s biographer, has selected the most significant of the 850 …	OL15175485W
	Beat Culture	William Lawlor	Beat Culture captures in a single volume six decades of cultural and countercultural expression in the arts and society. It goes beyond other works, which are often limited to Beat writers like Willi…	OL1804201W
	Beat	Christopher Felver	A collection of images, text, ephemera, artifacts, and reminiscence celebrates the creative spirit and joyous antics of the men and women known as the Beat Generation. Spotlighted are Hunter S. Thom…	OL1875144W
$Literary Outlaw \Use 0370 31586 3\$	Literary Outlaw \Use 0370 31586 3\	Leib Chigrin,Ted Morgan,Manuela Carmona García,Óscar Palmer Yáñez	xix, 714 p. : 24 cm	OL1961764W
	How I work as a poet & other essays/plays/stories	Lew Welch	viii, 139 p. 21 cm	OL3507858W
	Memory babe	Gerald Nicosia	A thoroughly researched portrait of Beat writer Jack Kerouac and his life, times, and work.	OL3943373W
	Planet News, 1961-1967 (Pocket Poets)	Allen Ginsberg	"Planet News collecting seven years' Poesy scribed to 1967 begins with electronic politics disassociation & messianic rhapsody TV Baby in New York, continues picaresque around the globe, elan percept…	OL4624452W
	Spontaneous Mind	Allen Ginsberg,David A. Carter	"The interviews collected in Spontaneous Mind, chronologically arranged and in some cases previously unpublished, were conducted throughout Allen Ginsberg's long career. Always a candid and engaging …	OL4624474W
	Les Ecrivains beats et le voyage	Jacqueline Starer	http://www.keith-barnes.com/publications/beats_voyage_resume_fr.htm	OL5020239W
	Factotum	Charles Bukowski	One of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service…	OL50452W
	Atop an Underwood	Jack Kerouac	An anthology of early stories by the poet of the Beat generation. Topics range from his time in Columbia University, from which he was expelled, to an excerpt from a novel which is based on his servi…	OL65917W
	Book of Dreams	Jack Kerouac,Robert Creeley	Book of Dreams is a comprehensive dream journal published by Jack Kerouac in 1960 that covers all recorded dreams from 1952-1960. In it Kerouac tries to continue plot-lines with characters from his b…	OL65921W
	The town and the city	Jack Kerouac	The Town and the City is a novel by Jack Kerouac, published by Harcourt Brace in 1950. This was the first major work published by Kerouac, who later became famous for his second novel On the Road (19…	OL65935W
	Charles Bukowski	Howard Sounes	Locked in The Arms of a Crazy Life is the acclaimed biography of Charles Bukowski, the hard-drinking barfly whose semi-autobiographical books about low-life America made him a cult figure across the …	OL73227W
	Bis ans Ende aller Straßen	Frederik Hetmann	Schriftstellerische Tätigkeit und Tod des Autors Jack Kerouac als Biografie in Romanform.	OL9059885W