The Beat Generation exploded onto the American literary scene in the 1950s, challenging literary conventions and social conformity through experimental writing that rejected the era’s materialism and ...

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 ...

Sydney Hastings-Wilkins/DAILY. Buy this photo. Sydney Hastings-Wilkins/DAILY. Buy this photo. In an exploration of Ann Arbor’s robust and diverse literary scene, The Michigan Daily’s Business beat ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Part of a continuing weekly series on Alaska history by local historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage or Alaska history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom of ...

When most people think of the Beat Generation they picture smoky lounges, cigarette smoke, and the restless verse of On the Road and Howl. Yet the legacy of this mid‑century literary revolt ...