In post-WWII popular culture, our country saw the rise of the Beat Generation, a group of progressive artists and writers who voiced their independence through intellectual escapades and reflections ...

I've become interested in the Beat Generation recently. This San Francisco enclave of mostly New York city bohemians was unknown until they used words to challenge society. I feel there is a kinship ...

The defining moment of the Beat Generation came in 1956 when poet, publisher and bookseller Lawrence Ferlinghetti published Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl”--and was forced to defend himself in court against ...

You can hear it in Ginsberg's experiments with breath (not meter), as in "Howl": "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the ...

In the mind’s eye—as well as the archive of scratchy black-and-white footage that captured much of the era of the Beat Generation—trying to make out the booze that these writers drank from the ...

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 ...

A new crop of films portrays their lifestyle as rebellious, adolescent fun. But what made the Beats so influential in the first place was that they were radical, free-thinking adults. Given what the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... He only lived there for a year, but Beat Generation muse Neal Cassady left his mark on 2558 Champa St. in Denver. The 400-square-foot building, sandwiched ...