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Beat Generation
The Beat Generation was a group of American post-World War II writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, as well as the cultural phenomena that they both documented and inspired. Central elements of "Beat" culture included rejection of received standards, innovations in style, experimentation with drugs, alternative sexualities, an interest in Eastern religion, a rejection of materialism, and explicit portrayals of the human condition.
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I do not wish to escape to myself, I wish to escape from myself. I wish to obliterate my consciousness and my knowledge of independent existence, my guilts, my secretiveness.
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― Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters
― Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters
This is a space for those interested in reading books written during or about the 1950s, 60s, an…more
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Beatdom is the world's most popular Beat-themed literary journal. Now we have a Goodreads group,…more
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last active one year ago
reading of any kind of words in the form of a book or poetry colleciton, with discussions, and l…more
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last active 10 years ago
