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Beat Literature & History The Beat Generation may be most famous for Jack Kerouac (On the Road), Allen Ginsberg (Howl), and William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch), but in fact it claims an amazing number of inspired writers. Delve into our complete selection of fine books by and about the Beats and their accomplices —among them,  Neal Cassady, Herbert Huncke, Gregory Corso, Diane di Prima, Ted Joans, John Clellon Holmes, Anne Waldman, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Gary Snyder, Robert Duncan, Philip Lamantia, Bob Kaufman, Bob Creeley, Kenneth Rexroth. Browse your favorite author, search for a specific title, or just look through the entire selection of over 200 Beat books, presented alphabetically by author. Books in this online selection represent only a sliver of what we offer in the store. If you've got a particular book in mind and want to check on its availability, call us at 415-362-8193.   William S. Burroughs   |  Neal Cassady   |  Gregory Corso   |  Diane di Prima   |  Lawrence Ferlinghetti   |  Allen Ginsberg   |  Bob Kaufman   |  Jack Kerouac   |  Michael McClure   |  Gary Snyder

1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>     sort list by author | publication date Howl on Trial The Battle for Free Expression Bill Morgan, Nancy J. Peters The inside story of the publication and defense of Howl in correspondence, documents and photographs. Americus, Book I Lawrence Ferlinghetti In less than a year, Lawrence Ferlinghetti won a lifetime achievement award from the Author's Guild, received the Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and celebrated the 50th... The Ancient Rain Poems, 1956-1978 Bob Kaufman A collection of early rap poetry from "the black American Rimbaud." And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac More than sixty years ago, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac sat down in New York City to write a novel about the summer of 1944, when one of their friends killed another in a moment of brutal and tragic bloodshed. The two authors were then at the... Atop an Underwood Early Stories and Other Writings Jack Kerouac Before Jack Kerouac expressed the spirit of a generation in his 1957 classic, On the Road, he spent years figuring out how he wanted to live and, above all, learning how to write. The Awakener A Memoir of Kerouac and the Fifties Helen Weaver Helen Weaver's intimate memoir of love and friendship with Jack Kerouac and the Beats Axe Handles Poems Gary Snyder The title poem of this collection may be Snyder's strongest poem of the 1980s, and this is high praise. Incorporating Snyder's familiar and welcome themes of nature, family and eastern philosophy, it is a passage into a world of insights, small... BEAT Photographs of the Beat Era Christopher Felver There has never before been a book filled with this many photographs of equal Beat Era personalities -- the most comprehensive photography collection of the people, players, and friends of the Beat era in American literature. Beat Atlas A State by State Guide to the Beat Generation in America Bill Morgan The ultimate tour guide for those interested in the Beats and their travels "on the road." The Beat Book Writings from the Beat Generation Anne Waldman The Beat movement exploded into American culture in the early 1950s with the force of prophecy. Not just another literary school, it was an artistic and social revolution. William S. Burroughs proclaimed that the Beat writers were “real... The Beat Generation & the Angry Young Men Gene Feldman, Max Gartenberg This is a celebration of the anti-establishment literature of the 1950 s. Here you will find the works of Jack Kerouac, Williams Burroughs, Allen Ginsburg, Kingsley Amis, J. P. Donleavy, Norman Mailer, Colin Wilson and many more. In America they were... Beat Generation in New York A Walking Tour of Jack Kerouac's City Bill Morgan Set off on the eternal trail of the Beat experience in the city that inspired many of Jack Kerouac's best-loved novels including On the Road, Vanity of Duluoz, The Town and the City, and Desolation Angels. This is the ultimate guide to Kerouac's New York. The Beat Generation in San Francisco A Literary Tour Bill Morgan, Lawrence Ferlinghetti A blow-by-blow unearthing of the places where the Beat writers first came to full bloom: the flat where Ginsberg wrote "Howl;" Gary Snyder's zen cottage in Berkeley; the ghostly railroad yards where Kerouac and -Cassady toiled; the pads where Jack &... The Beat Hotel Ginsberg, Burroughs & Corso in Paris, 1957-1963 Barry Miles The Beat Hotel is a delightful chronicle of a remarkable moment in American literary history. From the Howl obscenity trial to the invention of the cut-up technique, Barry Miles's extraordinary narrative chronicles the feast of ideas that was Paris... 1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>