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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
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
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
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
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
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
The essential Ginsberg	Allen Ginsberg	"A collection of essential poems, essays, letters, songs, and photographs which aims to introduce new readers to the scope of Allen Ginsberg's work in its prolific and profound diversity"--	OL20000689W
681 Lexington Avenue	Elizabeth Von Vogt	As a teenager, Von Vogt lived above her brother John Clellon Holmes' apartment (he wrote the first Beat novel, Go) and she shared many experiences with the crowd that hung out there - Jack Kerouac, A…	OL20546696W
Włóczędzy Dharmy	Jack Kerouac	Two ebullient young men are engaged in a passionate search for dharma, or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen way, which takes them climbing into the high Sierras to seek the lesso…	OL24308754W
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
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
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
Big Sur	Tom Parker,Jack Kerouac	Big Sur is a novel written by Jack Kerouac, that was published in 1962. The books perspective is told from Kerouac's alter ego Jack Dulouz. The novel describes Kerouac's frustration that he has…	OL65938W
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