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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 7 >>>     sort list by title | publication date Naked Lunch The Restored Text William S. Burroughs "He was," as Salon's Gary Kamyia notes, "20th-century drug culture's Poe, its Artaud, its Baudelaire. He was the prophet of the literature of pure experience, a phenomenologist of dread.... Burroughs had the scary genius to turn the junk wasteland... Nova Express William S. Burroughs Part sci-fi, part Swiftian parody, pure Burroughs, this sequel to The Soft Machine takes us back into its nightmarish world of addiction and monstrosity. Queer 25th-Anniversary Edition William S. Burroughs The definitive 25th-anniversay edition of Burroughs's legendary second novel. Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma-both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel... Queer A Novel William S. Burroughs For more than three decades, while its writer's world fame increased, Queer remained unpublished because of its forthright depiction of homosexual longings. Set in the corrupt and spectral Mexico City of the forties, Queer is the story of William Lee... Rub Out the Words The Letters of William S. Burroughs 1959-1974 William S. Burroughs, Bill Morgan In this long anticipated collection, editor Bill Morgan takes readers through Burroughs' correspondence from the early sixties through the mid-seventies, in more than three hundred letters that document Burroughs’ steady drift away from the Beat circle... The Soft Machine William S. Burroughs "One of the most interesting pieces of radical fiction we have." – The Nation The Ticket That Exploded William S. Burroughs The grand "cut-up" trilogy that started with The Soft Machine and continued with Nova Express reaches its percussive climax with this novel. The Wild Boys A Book of the Dead William S. Burroughs A pleasant little fable about global warfare. The Yage Letters William S. Burroughs The Yage Letters: an early epistolary novel by William S. Burroughs, whose 1952 account of himself as Junkie, published under the pseudonym William Lee, ended "Yage may be the final fix." In letters to Allen Ginsberg, an unknown young poet in New... Collected Letters, 1944-1967 Neal Cassady Neal Cassady is best remembered today as Jack Kerouac's muse and the basis for the character "Dean Moriarty" in Kerouac's classic On The Road, and as one of Ken Kesey's merriest of Merry Pranksters, the driver of the psychedelic bus "Further,"... The First Third Neal Cassady Immortalized as Dean Moriarty by Jack Kerouac in his epic novel, On the Road, Neal Cassady was infamous for his unstoppable energy and his overwhelming charm, his savvy hustle and his devil-may-care attitude. A treasured friend and traveling... Off the Road Carolyn Cassady Love, literature, and friendship at the heart of the Beat Generation Off the Road tells the intimate story of the now legendary Neal Cassady and his remarkable friendship with Jack Kerouac (who immortalized Cassady as Dean Moriarty in On the Road)... The Portable Beat Reader Ann Charters The Portable Beat Reader is an excellent and thorough study of the Beat Generation, compiled and edited by Ann Charters, biographer of Jack Kerouac and one of our most notable experts on Beat literature and ideas. This lively work of scholarship goes... White Hand Society The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary & Allen Ginsberg Peter Conners How Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary launched the psychedelic revolution together: the inside story. <<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 >>>