Books

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	Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
	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
	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
	Windblown world	Jack Kerouac,Douglas G. Brinkley	Excerpts from his diaries chronicle a pivotal era in Kerouac's life, describing the creation of his first novel; his special friendships with Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady; and his own take on the …	OL15841084W
	The transnational beat generation	Jennie Skerl,Nancy McCampbell Grace	"This collection maps the Beat Generation movement globally, exploring American Beat writers alongside parallel movements in other countries that shared a critique of global capitalism and a sense of…	OL16568812W
	The beat generation	Lynn M. Zott	"The second title in the new Gale Critical Companion collection series focusing on important literary movements brings together the salient topics, representative works, and major writers of Beat lit…	OL18221436W
	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
	Off the road	Carolyn Cassady	This book was a natural progression for me - my first being The Subterraneans followed by On The Road both by Jack Kerouac and then this book Off The Road. An interesting read, humorous, startling a…	OL4443889W
	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
	Dr Sax	Jack Kerouac	Doctor Sax (Doctor Sax: Faust Part Three) is a novel by Jack Kerouac published in 1959. Kerouac wrote it in 1952 while living with William S. Burroughs in Mexico City. The novel was written quickl…	OL65898W
	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
	Maggie Cassidy	Jack Kerouac	Maggie Cassidy tells the story of Jean and Maggie, a couple of girls in love with the idea of being in love, looking ahead to marriage with hope and trepidation whilst trying to mature in a New Engla…	OL65932W
	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
	Desolation angels	Jack Kerouac	Desolation Angels is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac, which makes up part of his Duluoz Legend. It was published in 1965, but was written years earlier, a…	OL65936W
	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
	Minor characters	Joyce Johnson	Joyce Johnson grew up bright and sensitive in Manhattan in the '50s of the cold war and gray flannel suits. "Attracted to decadence," with "little respect for respectability," she had a boundless - a…	OL894826W
	Bis ans Ende aller Straßen	Frederik Hetmann	Schriftstellerische Tätigkeit und Tod des Autors Jack Kerouac als Biografie in Romanform.	OL9059885W